LACMIP loc. 17132, southern Nopah Range (Ediacaran of the United States)

Where: Inyo County, California (35.8° N, 116.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.9° S, 125.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

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 7181: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Kyle Straub on 10.05.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cloudina
  - Cloudinidae
cf. Cloudina sp. Germs 1972