Where: California (36.5° N, 116.7° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° S, 94.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Glossopleura trilobite zone, Desert Range Limestone Member (Carrara Formation), Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)
• The faunas of this member are characteristic for only the lower part of the Glossopleura Zone.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; black, argillaceous lime mudstone and red dolomite
•black argillaceous limestone with orange
•dolomitic partings.
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 149645: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 19.08.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Glossopleura walcotti Poulsen 1927 trilobite | |
Ptychopariida "sp. indet.10" Swinnerton 1915 trilobite
Ptychopariida "sp. indet.11" Swinnerton 1915 trilobite | |
"? Alokistocarella cf. brighamensis" = Achlysopsis brighamensis
"? Alokistocarella cf. brighamensis" = Achlysopsis brighamensis Resser 1939 trilobite |