Cucomungo Canyon (USGS 4161-CO) (Cambrian of the United States)

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, Mule Spring Limestone Formation, Dyeran (516.0 - 513.0 Ma)

• 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 149699: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 20.08.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Biceratopsidae
Bristolia anteros Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Peachella iddingsi Walcott 1884 trilobite