Where: Inyo County, California (37.1° N, 118.1° W: paleocoordinates 7.5° S, 101.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Gold Point Member (Deep Spring Formation), Begadean (541.0 - 520.0 Ma)
• Alpert (1975) reported "upper member" of Deep Spring, now known as Gold Point Member (Smith 2019)
Environment/lithology: offshore; quartzite
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collected by S. P. Alpert in 1971; reposited in the LACM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: S. P. Alpert. 1975. Planolites and Skolithos from the Upper Precambrian-Lower Cambrian, White-Inyo Mountains, California. Journal of Paleontology 49(3):508-521 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 204502: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 10.09.2019
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