Where: White Pine County, Nevada (40.0° N, 115.0° W: paleocoordinates 3.2° S, 91.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Pioche Shale Formation), Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)
• Listed as Lower to Middle Cambrian, Albertella biozone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: poorly lithified shale and lithified, fine-grained, black, gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Trilobites only; articulates observed but not collected. Collection 15, 742 feet above base of formation
Primary reference: W. H. Fritz. 1968. Lower and early Middle Cambrian trilobites from the Pioche Shale, East-Central Nevada, U.S.A. Palaeontology 11:36-43 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77204: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 31.12.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Caborcella granosa" = Palmerara granosa Resser 1939 trilobite
Pachyaspis gallagari Fritz 1968 trilobite
Achlysopsis hemitora Fritz 1968 trilobite | |
Bythicheilus sp. Resser 1939 trilobite
Amecephalus laticaudum Resser 1939 trilobite | |
Poliella denticulata Rasetti 1951 trilobite | |
Kootenia brevispina trilobite
Kootenia crassa Fritz 1968 trilobite | |
Zacanthoides sp. Walcott 1888 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
Pagetia clytia Walcott 1916 |