Belted Range, Carrara Fm, Echo Shale Mbr., a (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, Echo Shale Member (Carrara Formation), Dyeran (516.0 - 513.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; green shale and limestone

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 149360: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 02.08.2013

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellus ? gilberti White 1874 trilobite