Where: Nevada (39.0° N, 116.0° W: paleocoordinates 3.2° S, 88.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dunderbergia trilobite zone, Dunderberg Shale B Member (Nopah Formation), Steptoean (497.0 - 493.5 Ma)

• Listed as upper half of Dunderbergia zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone and poorly lithified shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. R. Palmer. 1960. Trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Dunderberg Shale, Eureka District, Nevada. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 334-C:53-107 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75270: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 03.10.2007

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