Where: Inyo County, California (37.4° N, 118.2° W: paleocoordinates 7.5° S, 101.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Campito Formation, Begadean (538.8 - 520.0 Ma)

• "This species has been observed only in the Lower Cambrian Campito Formation, from the strata just below the first occurrence of trilobites, in the Fallotaspis Zone" so could be Andrews Mountain or Gold Coin member of Campito Formation.

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by P. W. Signor; reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

Primary reference: P. W. Signor and M. A. S. McMenamin. 1988. The Early Cambrian Worm Tube Onuphionella from California and Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 62(2):233-240 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 227037: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 23.08.2022

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