Also known as Hunt and Mabey loc. F-83
Where: California (36.5° N, 116.8° W: paleocoordinates 1.5° S, 96.3° 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 [...]
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; micaceous, green siltstone and limestone
•micaceous siltstones in the basal few meters of the
•member have yielded two olenellid species, [...]
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 149627: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 17.08.2013, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Trilobita | |
Olenellus gilberti, "Paedeumias nevadensis" = Olenellus nevadensis, "Olenellus arcuatus n. sp." = Arcuolenellus arcuatus
"Paedeumias nevadensis" = Olenellus nevadensis Walcott 1910 trilobite
"Olenellus arcuatus n. sp." = Arcuolenellus arcuatus Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite | |