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Ikes Canyon, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Lat/Long (Decimal) | 39.055,-116.743 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | estimated from map |
Given Location | Nevada, United States |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Nye County, Nevada, USA |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Ikes Canyon, Toquima Range | Flower R. H. (1964) | Pogonip - Antelope Valley | " [...] sponge beds, zone N, of the Pogonip limestone" (Flower, 1964 p. 112); there is only one sponge-bearing lithostratigraphic unit including trilobite zone N in the Pogonip of the northern Toquima Range: the Antelope Valley limestone (see Kay & Crawford, 1964, GSA Bull. 75(5)) Called Rhysostrophia zone at one point (Cooper 1956); PJW3 2017-06-28. | "limestone" | 471.8 - 457.5 Ma Ordovician |
Recorded Fossils
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!