Where: California (36.8° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 96.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• In the

•Titanothere Canyon and Echo Canyon sections, green

•micaceous siltstones in the basal few meters of the

•member have yielded two olenellid species, Olenellus arcuatus

•n. sp. and O. cylindricus n. sp., which characterize

•the O. arcuatus Zonule, and O. nevadensis (Walcott)[...]

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; micaceous, green siltstone

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 149609: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.08.2013

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