Ruin Wash Lagerstätte, Pioche Fm, Unit C (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Nevada (37.8° N, 114.6° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 30.4° N, 139.9° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Combined Metals Member (Pioche Formation), Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; claystone

• the top of field unit C was defined by a horizon penetrated by several macroscopic, vertical, iron-filled burrows

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: M. Webster, R. G. Gaines, and N. C. Hughes. 2008. Microstratigraphy, trilobite biostratinomy, and depositional environment of the “Lower Cambrian” Ruin Wash Lagerstätte, Pioche Formation, Nevada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 268:100-122 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156372: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 20.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Zacanthoididae
Zacanthopsis sp.
Zacanthopsis sp. Resser 1938 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Biceratopsidae
Nephrolenellus geniculatus, Bolbolenellus brevispinus
Nephrolenellus geniculatus Palmer 1998 trilobite
Bolbolenellus brevispinus Palmer 1998 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellus sp., Olenellus fowleri, Olenellus gilberti, Olenellus chiefensis, Olenellus terminatus
Olenellus sp. Hall 1861 trilobite
Olenellus fowleri Palmer 1998 trilobite
Olenellus gilberti White 1874 trilobite
Olenellus chiefensis Palmer 1998 trilobite
Olenellus terminatus Palmer 1998 trilobite