Where: California (36.2° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.7° S, 95.1° 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; tabular, black, argillaceous lime mudstone and dolomite

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 149656: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 19.08.2013

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