Where: California (36.1° N, 116.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° S, 125.2° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Wood Canyon Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• Lower member of Wood Canyon Fm contains boundary between Ediacaran-Cambrian, with Ediacaran microfossils in the lowermost portion and trilobite traces such as Rusophycus in the middle to upper part of the member.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: intrashelf or intraplatform reef; sandy dolomite and dolomite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Numbered specimens contained within paleontology repository at the University of California Riverside Earth and Planetary Sciences Research Museum (UCR EPSM).

Primary reference: S. Jensen, M. L. Droser, and N. A. Heim. 2002. Trace fossils and ichnofabrics of the Lower Cambrian Wood Canyon Formation, southwest Death Valley area. Proterozoic-Cambrian of the Great Basin and Beyond, Volume and Guidebook 93:123-135 [D. Muscente/D. Muscente]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231329: authorized by Daniel Segessenman, entered by Daniel Segessenman on 16.08.2023

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