ammonites
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 (339.4 - 318.1 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