Where: Inyo County, California (37.0° N, 118.0° W: paleocoordinates 2.8° S, 97.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Nevadella trilobite zone, Montenegro Member (Campito Formation), Montezuman (520.0 - 515.3 Ma)
• Sandstones in the lower portion of 3d of the Waucoba Spring.*) section. Near botto, of Nevadella zone.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: C. W. Walcott. 1908. Cambrian Brachiopoda: descriptions of new genera and species. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 53(3):53-137 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 203379: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.08.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Obolellata | |
Obolella vermilionensis, "Trematobolus excelsis n. sp." = Obolella excelsis
Obolella vermilionensis Walcott 1912
"Trematobolus excelsis n. sp." = Obolella excelsis Walcott 1908 | |
Brachiopoda | |
Mickwitzia occidens Walcott 1908 | |
Hyolitha | |
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840 | |
Trilobita | |
"Wanneria gracile" = Nevadia gracile
"Wanneria gracile" = Nevadia gracile Walcott 1910 trilobite | |
Archaeocyatha | |
Archaeocyathus sp. Billings 1861 archaeocyath sponge | |
Ethmophyllum gracile Meek 1868 archaeocyath sponge |