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: Upper Member (Pioche Shale Formation), Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)

• Listed as Lower to Middle Cambrian, Glossopleura biozone, samples collected as float near their sources

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified shale and lithified, fine-grained, black, gray limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Trilobites only; articulates observed but not collected. Collection 17, 823 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 155996: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 06.05.2014

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