Where: Inyo County, California (36.5° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.9° S, 94.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Carrara Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)
• "upper 200 ft."?
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown, red, calcareous shale and unlithified, blue, silty limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: W. E. Hall. 1971. Geology of the Panamint Butte Quadrangle, Inyo County, California. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1299:1-67 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 226422: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 07.07.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Glossopleura sp. Poulsen 1927 trilobite |