Where: California (36.2° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.7° S, 95.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Albertella trilobite zone, Jangle Limestone Member (Carrara Formation), Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)

• The lower part of the Jangle Limestone Member in the southeastern part of the outcrop area of the Carrara Formation has yielded several small low-diversity collections of trilobites that are typical of the Albertella-Mexicella Zonule of the Albertella Zone.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lime mudstone and shelly/skeletal wackestone

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 149653: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 19.08.2013

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