Collection 41200, 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 the stratigraphic columns of figure 4).

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 9456: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 05.11.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Plagiura minor, Volocephalina connexa
Plagiura minor Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite
3 cranidia
Volocephalina connexa Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite
1 cranidium
 Ptychopariida -
Mexicella mexicana
Mexicella mexicana Lochman 1948 trilobite
2 cranidia
 Corynexochida - Zacanthoididae
Albertella highlandensis n. sp., Ptarmiganoides hexacantha
Albertella highlandensis n. sp. Eddy and McCollum 1998 trilobite
15 cranidia, 25 pygidia, 7 librigena, 1 hypostome
Ptarmiganoides hexacantha Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite
3 pygidia