Where: California (37.3° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.9° S, 95.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Olenellus trilobite zone, Saline Valley Member (Harkless Formation), Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• Older parts of this zone are represented by beds containing Wanneria (Palmer, 1964) in the Saline Valley Formation of the Inyo-White Mountain region, which together with still older Olenellus-bearing beds of the Harkless Formation are western time-equivalents of the Zabriskie Quartzite.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

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 149697: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 20.08.2013, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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