USGS loc. 2454-CO, Funeral Mountains (Cambrian of the United States)

Also known as Hunt and Mabey loc. F-30

Where: Inyo County, California (36.1° N, 117.0° W: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 96.6° W)

When: Carrara Formation, Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• "The age is probably late, but not latest Early Cambrian."

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, blue limestone and shale

• "Dark-blue limestone" and "Shale, like unit 11; with thin interbeds of bioclastic limestone that weathers light tan; the number of limestone beds increase upward"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. B. Hunt and D. R. Mabey. 1966. Stratigraphy and structure, Death Valley, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 494-A:A1-A162 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 226264: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 28.06.2022

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Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellidae indet., Olenellus sp.
Olenellidae indet. Walcott 1890 trilobite
Olenellus sp. Hall 1861 trilobite