Where: Inyo County, California (35.9° N, 116.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.9° S, 97.0° W)
When: Carrara Formation, Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)
• "a thin limestone bed near the top of an unnamed lower member of the Carrara"
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by R. L. Clark
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: J. H. Stitt and R. L. Clark. 1984. A complete specimen of Peachella brevispina Palmer— an unusual olenellid trilobite (Arthropoda: Olenellida) from the lower Cambrian of California. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 20(9):145-150 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 226640: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 19.07.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Peachella brevispina Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite |