Where: Nye County, Nevada (36.3° N, 115.9° W: paleocoordinates 42.3° S, 125.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• The lower member records a highstand system tract consisting of three carbonate-capped parasequences, recording a shallow marine-continental braid plain transition.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta front; lithified sandstone and lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: J. W. Hagadorn and B. M. Waggoner. 2000. Ediacaran Fossils from the Southwestern Great Basin, United States. Journal of Paleontology 74(2):349-359 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Straub/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7177: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Kyle Straub on 10.05.2000, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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