Where: White Pine County, Nevada (40.0° N, 115.0° W: paleocoordinates 3.2° S, 91.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Albertella trilobite zone, Upper Member (Pioche Shale Formation), Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)
• Listed as Lower to Middle Cambrian, Albertella
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: poorly lithified shale and lithified, fine-grained, black, gray limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by W.H. Fritz; reposited in the USNM
• Trilobites only; articulates observed but not collected. Collection 71, 535 feet above base of formation
Primary reference: W. H. Fritz. 1968. Lower and early Middle Cambrian trilobites from the Pioche Shale, East-Central Nevada, U.S.A. Palaeontology 11:36-43 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 155985: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 05.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Caborcella clinolimbata" = Nyella clinolimbata, "Caborcella granosa" = Palmerara granosa
"Caborcella clinolimbata" = Nyella clinolimbata Fritz 1968 trilobite
"Caborcella granosa" = Palmerara granosa Resser 1939 trilobite | |
Alokistocare alta n. sp.
Alokistocare alta n. sp. Fritz 1968 trilobite | |
Ptarmiganoides sp. Rasetti 1951 trilobite
Ptarmiganoides araneicauda Fritz 1968 trilobite
Albertella lata Fritz 1968 trilobite
Albertella eiloitys Fritz 1968 trilobite | |
Olenoides steptoensis n. sp. Fritz 1968 trilobite
Kootenia convoluta trilobite
Kootenia crassinucha n. sp. Fritz 1968 trilobite | |
Oryctocephalus maladensis Resser 1939 trilobite
Oryctocephalites typicalis Resser 1939 trilobite | |
Poliella leipalox Fritz 1968 trilobite
Poliella germana Resser 1939 trilobite
Poliella denticulata Rasetti 1951 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
Pagetia resseri Kobayashi 1943
Pagetia clytia Walcott 1916 |