UCMP loc. B-8026, Westgard Pass, White-Inyo Mountains (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Inyo County, California (37.3° N, 118.2° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° S, 99.1° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nevadella to Bonnia-Olenellus trilobite zone, Poleta Formation, Waucoban (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)

• Specimes found in the top of a thin (3cm) bed in lower 25 meters of formation. AGE: Waucoban; refined by A. Hendy (6/2009) on the basis of biostratigraphic data (= Bonnia-Olenellus zone).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, sandy siltstone

• Samples are from the Great Basin deposits.
• top of a thin (3cm) bed of very fine grained sandy siltstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, replaced with silica

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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 9126: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 24.09.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• List does not include the following trace fossil: Taphrhelminthopsis.
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 Erniettomorpha -
cf. Swartpuntia sp.
cf. Swartpuntia sp. Narbonne et al. 1997