Loc. 88. 7 miles north Bennetts Spring, Highland Range (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Lincoln County, Nevada (37.8° N, 114.5° W: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 89.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eurekia apopsis trilobite zone, Trempealeauan (492.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• Latest Sunwaptan

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by C. D. Walcott in 1890; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: E. L. Yochelson and B.L. Stinchcomb. 1987. Recognition of Macluritella (Gastropoda) from the Upper Cambrian of Missouri and Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 61(1):56-61 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93574: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

Hyolithes curvatus
  - Coleolidae
"Hyolithes curvatus n. sp." = Spirodentalium walcotti
"Hyolithes curvatus n. sp." = Spirodentalium walcotti Howell 1946