UCR locality 7101. on crest of ridge extending west from first hill north of hill 7865 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Department of Geology, University of California, Los Angeles, locality 6058-60

Where: Nye County, Nevada (38.9° N, 115.8° W: paleocoordinates 1.7° N, 46.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Unit 60 Member (Moleen Formation), Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)

• This fauna is judged to be Late Chester (Late Mississippian) in age and is assigned to the upper part of the Rhipidomella nevadensis Assemblage Zone of Sadlick (1954).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray, silty limestone

• the fossils occur in platy, thin-bedded, dark gray, silty limestone 20 feet above the base of the formation and can be collected best from the abundant weathered platy slabs that cover the slopes.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. D. Mount. 1973. A new species of Straparollus (Archaeogastropoda) from the Mississippian of Nevada. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 72(2):111-112 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77065: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.12.2007

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Taxonomic list

Scyphozoa
 Conulariida - Conulariidae
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Plagioglypta sp. Pilsbry 1898 tusk shell
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon (Bellerophon) sp. de Montfort 1808 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten cf. affinis Walcott 1884 scallop
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Paladin sp. Weller 1936 trilobite
Blastoidea
 Spiraculata - Pentremitidae
Pentremites sp. Say 1820 blastoid
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Anchignathodontidae
"Spathognathodus cf. minutus" = Hindeodus minutus
"Spathognathodus cf. minutus" = Hindeodus minutus Ellison 1941 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Idiognathodontidae
Gnathodus aff. simplex conodont
Gnathodus aff. girtyi simplex Dunn
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Cavusgnathus lautus Gunnell 1933 conodont
Cavusgnathus gigantus Gunnell 1933 conodont