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Within 1 mile of Eureka , Eureka County, Nevada, USA
Lat/Long (Decimal) | 39.5,-115.95 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | based on nearby landmark |
Given Location | Nevada, United States |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Eureka County, Nevada, USA |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Within 1 mile of Eureka (UCMP V66130) | Dean B. | Carbon Ridge | When it was found, its age was presumed to be Devonian or Carboniferous, since the fossiliferous deposits in that area were thought to be of those ages. The museum label still states that the locality is Devonian or Carboniferous, with a handwritten notation "Mississippian" (WMI, pers. obs. 2014). Recent references give the age as Upper Carboniferous (Obruchev 1964), ?Carboniferous (Zangerl 1981), and Carboniferous, ?Pennsylvanian (Ginter et al. 2010). However, there are no Devonian or Carbonife | "shale" | 298.9 - 272.3 Ma Paleozoic |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Toxoprion lecontei species | Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Eugeneodontiformes : Helicoprionidae : Toxoprion : Toxoprion lecontei | 298.9 - 272.3 Ma Paleozoic |
References
Dean B. On a new species of Edestus, E. lecontei, from Nevada, Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences 16, 61-69 |
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!