Where: Lincoln County, Nevada (37.6° N, 114.7° W: paleocoordinates 3.3° S, 95.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Nephrolenellus multinodus trilobite zone, Combined Metals Member (Pioche Shale Formation), Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)
• Approximately 6.5 m below the top of the Nephrolenellus multinodus zonule, Olenellus Biozone, Lower Cambrian, from limeĀ stone nodules in the upper Combined Metals Member, Pioche Shale. Approximately 3.5 m stratigraphically below locality ICS-1024.
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: F. A. Sundberg and L. B. McCollum. 1997. Oryctocephalids (Corynexochida: Trilobita) of the Lower-Middle Cambrian boundary interval from California and Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 77(6):1065-1090 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 205000: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 02.10.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Oryctocephalites palmeri Sundberg and McCollum 1997 trilobite | |
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