ammonites
South Canyon, New Pass Range, Central Nevada (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Nevada (39.6° N, 117.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.5° N, 43.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Augusta Formation (Star Peak Group), Ladinian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• Sutherlandi zone or lower

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, medium-grained, gray limestone

• Biostromes of in situ corals, hydrozoans, mollusks, and calcareous red algae occur at the base of a 59 m thick carbonate and argillaceous limestone interval. Biostromes ranging in thickness from one to three meters.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Roniewicz and G. D. Stanley,Jr. 1998. Middle Triassic Cnidarians from the New Pass Range, Central Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 72(2):246-256 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/B. Brenneis] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42552: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 02.08.2004, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling