Fossil Hill (Lower Prida Fm) (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Pershing County, Nevada (40.3° N, 118.1° W: paleocoordinates 12.5° N, 40.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Subcolumbites ammonoid zone, lower (unnamed) Member (Prida Formation), Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. P. Kelley, R. Motani, P. Embree and M. J. Orchard. 2016. A new Lower Triassic ichthyopterygian assemblage from Fossil Hill, Nevada. PeerJ 4(e1626) [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195195: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 26.07.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Utatsusauridae
cf. Utatsusaurus sp.
cf. Utatsusaurus sp. Shikama and Kamei 1978 ichthyosaur
Partial mandible; USNM 559349, thought to be from horizon FH1-7
 Ichthyosauria - Grippiidae
cf. Grippiidae indet.
cf. Grippiidae indet. Wiman 1929 ichthyosaur
Maxilla; USNM 559350, from horizon FH1-5
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Gondolellidae
Neostrachanognathus sp., Triassospathodus symmetricus
Neostrachanognathus sp. Koike 1998 conodont
Triassospathodus symmetricus Orchard 1995 conodont
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Longobarditidae
Prohungarites gutstadti
Prohungarites gutstadti Kummel 1969 ceratite