UCLA 6110 (Cambrian of the United States)

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

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Skolithos bulbus Alpert 1975