Where: Esmeralda County, Nevada (37.5° N, 117.5° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° S, 95.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Nevadella trilobite zone, Poleta Formation, Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)
• Middle Member ofthe Poleta Formation, Nevadella Zone, western Nevada
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, silty mudstone
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 227038: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 23.08.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Polychaeta | |
Onuphionella claytonensis n. sp.
Onuphionella claytonensis n. sp. Signor and McMenamin 1988 | |