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, Pahrump Hills Shale Member (Carrara Formation), Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)
• The Pahrump Hills Shale Member is poorly fossiliferous, but collections from different areas contain elements of both the Zacanthoidid and Albertella-Mexicella Zonules of the Albertella Zone.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: paralic; brown, green, red mudstone and brown, green, red shale
•heterogeneous sequence of red, brown, and green
•mudstones and shales, chloritic and cryptalgal limestones,
•thin chloritic oolites, and pelloidal 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 149569: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.08.2013, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Trilobita | |
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Corynexochida "indet. sp. 2" Kobayashi 1935 trilobite | |
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Albertelloides rectimarginatus n. sp. Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite | |
|
Kootenia germana Resser 1939 trilobite | |
|
Ptychopariida "indet. sp. 5" Swinnerton 1915 trilobite | |
|
Chancia cf. venusta Resser 1939 trilobite | |
Volocephalina connexa, Caborcella reducta n. sp., Caborcella pseudaulax n. sp., Pachyaspis gallagari
Volocephalina connexa Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite
Caborcella reducta n. sp. Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite
Caborcella pseudaulax n. sp. Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite
Pachyaspis gallagari Fritz 1968 trilobite | |
| Artiopoda | |
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Pagetia resseri Kobayashi 1943 | |