Where: Lincoln County, Nevada (37.6° N, 115.8° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° S, 93.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

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

• Within the basal several meters of a dark shale interval near the middle of the Pyramid Shale Member and about 220 m above the base of the Carrara Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal 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 205006: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 02.10.2019, edited by Pete Wagner

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