Cucomungo Canyon (USGS 7181-CO) (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: California (37.3° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.9° S, 95.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Olenellus trilobite zone, Mule Spring Limestone Formation, Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: 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 149700: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 20.08.2013

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Bonnia sp. Walcott 1916 trilobite