Belted Range, Carrara Fm, Eagle Mnt. Shale Mbr., collection (USGS 4433-CO) (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Nevada (37.3° N, 116.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° S, 95.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Olenellus trilobite zone, Eagle Mountain Shale Member (Carrara Formation), Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; gray, green, silty shale and siltstone

• The Eagle Mountain Shale Member is typically a green

•to gray-brown, slope-forming, silty shale.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. R. Palmer and R. B. Halley. 1979. Physical Stratigraphy and Trilobite Biostratigraphy of the Carrara Formation (Lower and Middle Cambrian) in the Southern Great Basin. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1047:1-131 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 149358: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 02.08.2013

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida -
Corynexochida "indet. 2" Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellus gilberti White 1874 trilobite