Where: Eureka County, Nevada (40.0° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 16.7° S, 62.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Icriodus woschmidti conodont zone, Roberts Mountain Formation, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sand shoal; lithified grainstone and lithified packstone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, acetic, sieve
Primary reference: G. Klapper and M. A. Murphy. 1974. Silurian-Lower Devonian conodont sequence in the Roberts Mountains Formation of central Nevada. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 111:1-62 [E. Jarochowska/E. Jarochowska]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 180846: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 04.08.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Pedavis "sp. C" Klapper and Philip 1971 conodont | |
Belodella sp. Ethington 1959 conodont
Coelocerodontus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont | |
"Paltodus" costulatus conodont | |
Ozarkodina "sp. F" Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Ozarkodina eurekaensis Klapper and Murphy 1974 conodont | |
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont | |
Conodontophorida | |
Delotaxis sp. Klapper and Philip 1971 |