Where: Lincoln County, Nevada (38.5° N, 115.0° W: paleocoordinates 4.0° S, 88.9° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dunderbergia trilobite zone, Corset Spring Shale Formation, Steptoean (497.0 - 493.5 Ma)
• Footage estimated from scaled stratigraphic section (Plate 22)
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 114296: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 13.08.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Trilobita | |
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Cheilocephalus brachyops Palmer 1965 trilobite
Oligometopus contractus Palmer 1965 trilobite | |
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Apachia butlerensis Frederickson 1949 trilobite | |
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Housia ovata Palmer 1960 trilobite
Sigmocheilus pogonipensis Resser 1942 trilobite
Pterocephalia sanctisabae Roemer 1849 trilobite
Parahousia subequalis Palmer 1965 trilobite | |
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Elburgia quinnensis Resser 1942 trilobite | |
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Bynumina globosa trilobite | |