Where: Inyo County, California (37.4° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° N, 97.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Poleta Formation, Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. D. Walcott in 1894; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. D. Walcott. 1912. Cambrian Brachiopoda. United States Geological Survey Monograph 51(1-2) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

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