PBDB Collection

Groom Range, Carrara Fm, Red Pass Limestone Mbr. (USGS 3766-CO) (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Nevada (37.5° N, 115.7° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° S, 94.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Albertella trilobite zone, Red Pass Limestone Member (Carrara Formation), Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)

• The upper few meters of the member are locally rich in trilobites of the Zacanthoidid Zonule of the Albertella Zone (p. 59) in the Groom Range and the Nevada Test Site.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lime mudstone

• The Red Pass Limestone Member generally forms a

•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 149565: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 09.08.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
Agnostida - Peronopsidae	"Peronopsis bonnerensis" = Pentagnostus bonnerensis "Peronopsis bonnerensis" = Pentagnostus bonnerensis Resser 1938
Agnostida - Eodiscidae	Pagetia resseri Pagetia resseri Kobayashi 1943 test: this isn't linked to collection supposedly
Trilobita
Corynexochida - Dorypygidae	Kootenia germana Kootenia germana Resser 1939 trilobite
Corynexochida - Zacanthoididae	Albertelloides mischi, Paralbertella bosworthi, Zacanthoides variacantha n. sp., Ptarmiganoides crassaxis n. sp. Albertelloides mischi Fritz 1968 trilobite test: this isn't linked to collection supposedly Paralbertella bosworthi Walcott 1908 trilobite Zacanthoides variacantha n. sp. Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite Ptarmiganoides crassaxis n. sp. Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite
Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae	"Oryctocephalina ? maladensis" = Oryctocephalus maladensis, Oryctocephalites typicalis "Oryctocephalina ? maladensis" = Oryctocephalus maladensis Resser 1939 trilobite Oryctocephalites typicalis Resser 1939 trilobite
Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae	Poliella germana Poliella germana Resser 1939 trilobite
Ptychopariida -	Ptychopariida sp., Ptychopariida "indet.1", Ptychopariida "indet. 2" Ptychopariida sp. Swinnerton 1915 trilobite test: this isn't linked to collection supposedly Ptychopariida "indet.1" Swinnerton 1915 trilobite test: this isn't linked to collection supposedly Ptychopariida "indet. 2" Swinnerton 1915 trilobite test: this isn't linked to collection supposedly
Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae	Nyella clinolimbata, Nyella immoderata, "Nyella granosa" = Palmerara granosa, Pachyaspis gallagari Nyella clinolimbata Fritz 1968 trilobite test: this isn't linked to collection supposedly Nyella immoderata Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite test: this isn't linked to collection supposedly "Nyella granosa" = Palmerara granosa Resser 1939 trilobite Pachyaspis gallagari Fritz 1968 trilobite