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UCLA loc. 4444; Currant Creek Gap

Nye County, Nevada
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Minerals on record here

1 mineral

Recorded here: fossil.

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About UCLA loc. 4444; Currant Creek Gap

UCLA loc. 4444; Currant Creek Gap is a fossil collection site in Nye, Nevada, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Cadiz Formation, dated to the Delamaran (509.7–505.3 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as marine indet and the tectonic setting is passive margin. Documented finds include Glossopleura mohavensis.

Geologic setting

Formation
Cadiz
Geologic interval
Delamaran
Age
509.7–505.3 Ma
Depositional environment
marine indet.
Tectonic setting
passive margin
Recorded occurrences
1
Locality notes

The described type has been collected at a roadcut on the northside of U. S. Highway 6, in thin-bedded, platy, gray limestone, 300 feeth north and 400 feet west of the southeast corner of Sec. 24, T. 11 N., R. 58 E., Currant Mountain quadrangle (U.S.G.S, 1957 ed.), Currant Creek, Nye County, Nevada

Fossils found here

Glossopleura mohavensis
Trilobita · Dolichometopidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 206376 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Can you collect at UCLA loc. 4444; Currant Creek Gap?

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What minerals are found at UCLA loc. 4444; Currant Creek Gap?

Fossil.

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Meteorite nearbyA 70 g stony meteorite was found at Blue Eagle in 2006, 11 miles from here.

Source: Paleobiology Database.