LACMIP loc. 17146, northern Salt Spring Hills (Cambrian of the United States)

Also known as NE of Amargosa Spring

Where: San Bernardino County, California (35.6° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.7° S, 97.9° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nevadella zone, Upper Member (Wood Canyon Formation), Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, burrowed sandstone and siltstone

• Rocks subjected to regional tectonism and intrusion. Samples are from the Great Basin deposits.
• 1 cm thick very fine-grained sand layer in a slab characterized by alternating mm-cm thick layers of very fine to fine grain quartz arenite.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: J. W. Hagadorn, C. M. Fedo, and B. M. Waggoner. 2000. Early Cambrian Ediacaran-type fossils from California. Journal of Paleontology 74(4):731-740 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9124: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 24.09.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Aspidella terranovica
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"? Tirasiana disciformis" = Aspidella terranovica
"? Tirasiana disciformis" = Aspidella terranovica Billings 1872