Groom Range, Carrara Fm, Pyramid Shale Mbr. (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Nevada (37.5° N, 115.7° W: paleocoordinates 2.5° S, 95.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Throughout the area of outcrop of the Carrara Formation, the lower 10 m of this member, or correlative beds in the east where the underlying Gold Ace Limestone Member is absent, contain the distinctive association of olenellids characteristic of the Olenellus multinodus Zonule.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: paralic; green shale and brown 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 149560: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 09.08.2013

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellus ? gilberti White 1874 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Biceratopsidae
"Olenellus multinodus" = Nephrolenellus multinodus
"Olenellus multinodus" = Nephrolenellus multinodus Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite