Where: California (36.2° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 96.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Olenellus trilobite zone, Pyramid Shale Member (Carrara Formation), Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)
• Throughout the area of outcrop of the Carrara Formation,the lower 10 m of this member, or correlative beds in the east where the underlying Gold Ace Limestone Member is absent, contain the distinctive association of olenellids characteristic of the Olenellus multinodus Zonule.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; green shale and siltstone
•with brown and maroon siltstone and shale with minor
•amounts of quartzite and limestone.
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: A. R. Palmer and R. B. Halley. 1979. Physical Stratigraphy and Trilobite Biostratigraphy of the Carrara Formation (Lower and Middle Cambrian) in the Southern Great Basin. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1047:1-131 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/J. Ju]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 149651: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 19.08.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Trilobita | |
"Olenellus multinodus" = Nephrolenellus multinodus
"Olenellus multinodus" = Nephrolenellus multinodus Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite | |
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Olenellus clarki Resser 1928 trilobite
Olenellus gilberti White 1874 trilobite | |