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
•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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Trilobita | |
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Corynexochida "indet. 2" Kobayashi 1935 trilobite | |
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Olenellus gilberti White 1874 trilobite | |