New Pass Mine, Austin, Central Nevada (Triassic of the United States)
Where: Nevada (39.6° N, 117.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.1° N, 43.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Augusta Formation, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm
• The regional setting of the New Pass Mine area during the Late Triassic was a broad shallow embayment in an arid region.
• The buildup was assigned to a mollusk-echinoderm grainstone facies and a coral-bivalve bindstone-packstone facies. An oolite-algal grainstone is found in direct contact with both the biofacies.
Primary reference: N. M. Fraser. 1997. Large epifaunal bivalves from Mesozoic buildups of Western North America. [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/C. Jamet]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 33438: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Catherine Powers on 30.07.2003, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Anthozoa | |
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Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral | |
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Astraeomorpha sp. Reuss 1854 stony coral | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Neomegalodon sp. Guembel 1864 clam | |