Where: White Pine County, Nevada (40.1° N, 115.6° W: paleocoordinates 3.4° S, 86.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Steptoean (497.0 - 493.5 Ma)
• Footage estimated from scaled stratigraphic section (Plate 22). Formation unnamed but equivalent to Lincoln Peak Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; 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 122136: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 17.12.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Aphelotoxon punctata Palmer 1965 trilobite | |
Cernuolimbus granulosus Palmer 1965 trilobite
? Pterocephalia punctata Palmer 1965 trilobite | |
"Simulolenus ? wilsoni" = Olenus
"Simulolenus ? wilsoni" = Olenus trilobite | |
Erixanium ? multisegmentus Palmer 1965 trilobite |