USGS loc. 3141-CO, Panamint Mountains (Cambrian of the United States)

Also known as Hunt and Mabey loc. F-66

Where: Inyo County, California (36.3° N, 117.0° W: paleocoordinates 2.8° S, 90.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Nopah Formation, Furongian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• at base of unit

Environment/lithology: marine; nodular, brown, green shale and shelly/skeletal, brown limestone

• Shale and limestone. Shale greenish or brown in beds 1-4 ft thick; some shale has nodules of limestone. Limestones brown and in beds 6 in to 2 ft thick. Many are trilobite breccias; others are echinoderm breccias.

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 226276: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 29.06.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Dysoristidae
Dysoristus sp.
Dysoristus sp. Bell in Lochman and Duncan 1941
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Apsotreta sp.
Apsotreta sp. Palmer 1954
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Elviniidae
Dunderbergia variagranula
Dunderbergia variagranula Palmer 1954 trilobite
 Olenida - Pterocephaliidae
Strigambitus utahensis
Strigambitus utahensis Resser 1942 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Homagnostus obesus