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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Helicoplacoidea | |
Helicoplacus sp. Durham and Caster 1963 | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Planolites reticulatus Alpert 1975
Planolites montanus Richter 1937 |