BirchCreek Section II, sample 937 (Devonian of the United States)

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
 Prioniodontida - Icriodontidae
Pedavis "sp. C" Klapper and Philip 1971 conodont
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Belodella sp. Ethington 1959 conodont
Coelocerodontus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
 Ozarkodinida -
Ozarkodina "sp. F" Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Ozarkodina eurekaensis Klapper and Murphy 1974 conodont
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont
Conodontophorida
 Hibbardellacea - Hibbardellidae
Delotaxis sp. Klapper and Philip 1971