Ogygopsis "biofacies," Carrara Fm. (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: California-Nevada (39.2° N, 119.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° N, 91.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Albertella zone, Carrara Formation, Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)

• "l.M.Camb. (~Lenian)"

Environment/lithology: marine; black limestone

• "dark-grey to black, thin bedded, fine grained ls. ocean facing shelf below wave base. non-orogenic miogeocline. BA4"

Size class: macrofossils

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 204: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

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Taxonomic list

• "Palmer and Haley 1979. USGS Prof Papr 1047. Palmer and Campbell 1976. BYU Geol. Studies 23 (2)."
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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae
Thoracocare sp.
Thoracocare sp. Robison and Campbell 1974 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Ogygopsis sp.
Ogygopsis sp. Walcott 1889 trilobite
"dominant"
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
"Elrathina sp." = Ptychoparella
"Elrathina sp." = Ptychoparella Poulson 1927 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Alokistocaridae
Chancia sp.
Chancia sp. Walcott 1924 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Eodiscidae
Pagetia sp.
Pagetia sp. Walcott 1916
 Agnostida - Peronopsidae
Peronopsis sp.
Peronopsis sp. Corda 1847