Belted Range, Carrara Fm, Pyramid Shale Mbr., (USGS 4434-CO) (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Nevada (37.3° N, 116.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 94.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Plagiura-Polellia trilobite zone, Pyramid Shale Member (Carrara Formation), Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• The member is primarily a green shale interbedded

•with brown and maroon siltstone and shale with minor

•amounts of quartzite 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 149363: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 02.08.2013

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Poliella lomataspis n. sp. Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite
 Ptychopariida -
Ptychopariida indet. Swinnerton 1915 trilobite
as "Kochaspid, sp. undet. 1"