USGS 6386-CO (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Esmeralda County, Nevada (37.9° N, 117.9° W: paleocoordinates 5.9° S, 97.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Poleta Formation, Early/Lower Cambrian (541.0 - 513.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; massive, gray limestone and brown, gray, yellow siltstone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: P. T. Robinson, J. H. Stewart, R. J. Moiola and J. P. Albers. 1976. Geologic map of the Rhyolite Ridge quadrangle, Esmeralda County, Nevada. [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204023: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 29.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellidae indet. Walcott 1890 trilobite
"Undet. large, reticulate olenellid"