Where: Nevada (38.9° N, 114.9° W: paleocoordinates 4.0° S, 88.5° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Whipple Cave Formation, Trempealeauan (492.5 - 485.4 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, gray packstone and lithified mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: permineralized
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: S. E. Peters. 2003. Evenness, richness and the Cambrian-Paleozoic faunal transition in North America: an assemblage-level perspective. The University of Chicago 1-279 [S. Peters/S. Peters/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50831: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 23.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
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Cystoidea | |
Cystoidea indet. von Buch 1846 | |
Gastropoda | |
Archaeogastropoda indet. Thiele 1925 snail | |
Lingulata | |
Lingulida indet. Waagen 1885 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Orthida indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1932 | |
Trilobita | |
Heterocaryon indet. Raymond 1937 trilobite | |
Eurekiidae indet. Hupé 1953 trilobite
Eurekia indet. Walcott 1924 trilobite | |
Macronoda indet. Lochmann 1964 trilobite
Euptychaspis indet. Ulrich 1931 trilobite | |
Ptychopariida indet. Swinnerton 1915 trilobite |