Grapevine Mountains (USGS 4136-CO) (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: California (36.8° N, 117.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 94.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• The lower beds are dominated by trilobites of the Kochaspid Zonule of the

•"Plagiura-Poliella" Zone.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; oncoidal, ooidal, shelly/skeletal lime mudstone and 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 149616: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 16.08.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Ptychopariida -
Ptychopariida indet.
Ptychopariida indet. Swinnerton 1915 trilobite