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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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 (501.0 - 485.4 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
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 110449: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 08.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
? Dunderbergia nitida trilobite
Dunderbergia bigranulosa Palmer 1960 trilobite | |
Litocephalus verruculapeza Palmer 1960 trilobite | |
Pterocephalia elongata Palmer 1960 trilobite
Sigmocheilus notha trilobite |