Collection 41189, Grassy Spring Mb., Pioche Shale, NV - Eddy and McCollum 1998 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Lincoln County, Nevada (37.5° N, 114.8° W: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 93.5° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Albertella Biozone zone, Grassy Spring Member (Pioche Shale Formation), Solvan (510.2 - 504.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified packstone

• bioclastics (interpretted from figure 4. stratigraphic sections).

Collection methods: Only trilobites from the Albertella highlandensis subbiozone were collected.

Primary reference: J. D. Eddy and L. B. McCollum. 1998. Early Middle Cambrian Albertella biozone trilobites of the Pioche Shale, southeastern Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 72(5):864-887 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9434: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 03.11.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Ptychopariida -
Mexicella stator
Mexicella stator Walcott 1916 trilobite
2 cranidia
 Corynexochida - Zacanthoididae
Albertella highlandensis n. sp.
Albertella highlandensis n. sp. Eddy and McCollum 1998 trilobite
16 cranidia, 20 pygidia, 2hypostomes