Where: Lincoln County, Nevada (38.9° N, 114.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.5° S, 88.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dunderbergia trilobite zone, Lincoln Peak Formation, Steptoean (497.0 - 493.5 Ma)

• Footage estimated from scaled stratigraphic section (Plate 22).

• 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 114602: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 17.08.2011

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