Northern Montezuma Range, Poleta Fm, locality 1316: Montezuman, Nevada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Holmiidae
Grandinasus informal sp. A
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nevada County:Esmeralda
Coordinates: 37.7° North, 117.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.0° North, 150.7° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Series 2
Stage: Stage 3 10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 2
Key time interval: Montezuman Zone:  Nevadella
Age range of interval: 519.9 - 514.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Poleta Member:Lower Mb.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Lithology description: shale
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: shale unit in the middle of the lower member of the Poleta
Formation
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:140650
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-03-14 01:50:49 Last modified:2013-03-13 09:50:49
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-06-14 01:50:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

45528. J. S. Hollingsworth. 2006. Holmiidae (Trilobita: Olenellina) of the Montezuman Stage (Early Cambrian) in Western Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 80(2):309-332 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]