Where: Lincoln County, Nevada (37.9° N, 114.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.3° S, 93.1° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Glossopleura zone, Chisholm Shale Formation, Solvan (510.2 - 504.5 Ma)

• All mine/pit excavations are from the same thin stratigraphic interval of approximately 9-11 meters below the contact between the Chisholm and the massive Highland Peak Formation at Chisholm Mine. The shale producing the fossils has very few "worm" burrows.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, yellow shale

Collection methods: All specimens are flattened which distort shape, morphology, and plate relationships.

Primary reference: B. M. Bell and J. Sprinkle. 1978. Totiglobus, an unusual new edrioasteroid from the Middle Cambrian of Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 52(2):243-266 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7899: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 06.06.2000, edited by Alex Lin

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