Where: Nevada (36.7° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.7° S, 94.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Glossopleura trilobite zone, Bonanza King Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• Evidence that the Glossopleura-bearing interval in the Carrara Formation is properly designated as the Glossopleura Zonule is provided by an important collection with specimens of Glossopleura from a thin-bedded silty unit about 150 m above the base of the Bonanza King Formation, which overlies the Carrara Formation, in the Striped Hills section, Nevada (pi. 17).

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 149608: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.08.2013

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