USNM Locality 41081 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Inyo County, California (37.3° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.7° S, 93.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Plagiura trilobite zone, Emigrant Formation, Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)

• Approximately 20 m above the base of the Emigrant Formation.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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 205004: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 02.10.2019

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836
"sponge spicules"
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae
Oryctocephalus indicus Reed 1910 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
"Syspacephalus sp." = Ptychoparella
"Syspacephalus sp." = Ptychoparella Poulson 1927 trilobite