Where: White Pine County, Nevada (40.0° N, 114.9° W: paleocoordinates 4.0° S, 87.4° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dunderbergia trilobite zone, Dunderberg Shale Formation, Steptoean (497.0 - 493.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, silty limestone and lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. R. Palmer in the 1960s; reposited in the USGS, USNM

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: A. R. Palmer. 1965. Trilobites of the Late Cambrian Pterocephaliid Biomere in the Great Basin, United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 493:1-105 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 110446: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 08.06.2011

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