Emigrant Pass. Bristolia anteros occurrence zonule subunit 2 (Cambrian of the United States)

Also known as Bristolia anteros occurrence zonule subunit 2, CA - Fowler 1999

Where: Inyo County, California (35.8° N, 116.2° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 97.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bristolia anteros trilobite zone, Echo/Eagle Shale Member (Carrara Formation), Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified shale and lithified siltstone

• shale with thin bedded micaceous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Specimens from this site are split into an informal zonation. The zonation utilizes both acme and occurrence zonules, and subdivides some zonules into numbered subunits based on clearly distinguishable assemblages. However, relative species abundances, although reflected to some extent in the biostratigraphic zonation, are not listed. Only trilobites are included in the faunal list. The zonule name will be listed in the Zone datafield.

Primary reference: E. D. Fowler. 1999. Biostratigraphy of upper Dyeran strata of the Carrara Formation, Emigrant Pass, Nopah Range, California. Laurentia 99: V field conference of the Cambrian Stage Subdivision Working Group, International Subcomission on Cambrian Stratigraphy 46-50 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10612: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 29.05.2001

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Biceratopsidae
Bristolia sp.2 n. sp. Harrington 1956 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellus sp.1 n. sp., Olenellus sp.2 n. sp., "Olenellus cf. transitans" = Paedeumias transitans, Olenellus nevadensis, "Olenellus fremonti" = Mesonacis fremonti
Olenellus sp.1 n. sp. Hall 1861 trilobite
Olenellus (Paedeumias) n. sp.1
Olenellus sp.2 n. sp. Hall 1861 trilobite
Olenellus (Mesonacis) n. sp. 2
"Olenellus cf. transitans" = Paedeumias transitans Walcott 1910 trilobite
Olenellus (Paedeumias) cf. transitans
Olenellus nevadensis Walcott 1910 trilobite
Olenellus (Paedeumias) nevadensis
"Olenellus fremonti" = Mesonacis fremonti Walcott 1910 trilobite
Olenellus (Mesonacis) fremonti