UCLA 6101 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Inyo County, California (37.3° N, 118.2° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 97.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Nevadella trilobite zone, Upper Member (Poleta Formation), Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• PMNG: Biozone not provided in article. Sprinkle (1973) notes in Nevadella biozone, ranging 518.4 - 515.4 Ma according to Gradstein, et al. (2020).

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; siltstone

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 204510: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 10.09.2019

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Taxonomic list

Helicoplacoidea
  - Helicoplacidae
Helicoplacus sp. Durham and Caster 1963
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
 Ichnofossils -
Planolites montanus Richter 1937