Also known as Locality ICS-1179, Pioche Form., Lincoln County, Nevada - Palmer 1998

Where: Lincoln County, Nevada (37.6° N, 114.8° W: paleocoordinates 3.3° S, 95.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Olenellus trilobite zone, C-Shale Member (Pioche Shale Formation), Lenian (516.0 - 510.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, replaced with silica

Collection methods: Includes all trilobites and supplementary information on brachiopods used to prove lack of significant erosional relief.

Primary reference: A. R. Palmer. 1998. Terminal Early Cambrian extinction of the Olenellina: documentation from the Pioche Formation, Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 72(4):650-672 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9822: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 23.01.2001

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