Where: Nevada (37.5° N, 115.7° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° S, 94.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Plagiura-Kochaspis trilobite zone, Red Pass Limestone Member (Carrara Formation), Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lime mudstone
•prominent cliff and consists of burrowed, oncolitic, and
•skeletal-fragment lime mudstones, oolite, and a variety of
•laminated lime mudstones and fenestral limestones.
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 149563: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 09.08.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Trilobita | |
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"Kochaspis augusta" = Kochiella augusta Walcott 1886 trilobite
Plagiura extensa n. sp. Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite
Kochiellina groomensis n. sp. Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite | |
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Kochaspis ? liliana Walcott 1886 trilobite | |