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. These include: Fieldaspis? sp., [...]
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; oncoidal, ooidal, shelly/skeletal lime mudstone and lime mudstone
•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 149617: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 16.08.2013, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Trilobita | |
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Fieldaspis ? sp. Rasetti 1951 trilobite | |
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Hadrocephalites sp. Sundberg and McCollum 2002 trilobite | |