Nopah Formation, Sample 2303-CO, Member D (Cambrian of the United States)

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: Elvinia trilobite zone, Dunderberg Shale D Member (Nopah Formation), Steptoean (501.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• Listed as lower half of Elvinia zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Fossils only in limestones
• Dominantly fossiliferous limestone interbedded with shale

Size class: macrofossils

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 75274: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 03.10.2007

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Taxonomic list

• Upper half of Dunderbergia zone age; Trilobite systematics with some phosphatic inarticulates mentioned; however, this is probably an accurate portrayal of full fauna
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Trilobita
 Olenida - Dokimokephalidae
Kindbladia affinis