Litho #4, Dyer Stage, Emigrant Formation, NV - McCollum and Sundberg 1999: Dyeran, Nevada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Trilobita
- Redlichiida
- Olenellidae
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Olenellus informal n. sp.
Hall 1861
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nevada | County: | Esmeralda |
| Coordinates: | 37.7° North, 117.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.2° South, 95.0° West | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Series 2 |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 2-3 | ||
| *Period: | Middle Cambrian - Late/Upper Cambrian | *Epoch: | Waucoban |
| *International age/stage: | Lenian | *Local age/stage: | Dyeran |
| Key time interval: | Dyeran | Trilobite zone: | Olenellus |
| Age range of interval: | 514.8 - 511 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Emigrant | Member: | Lower | ||
| Local section: | Split Mountain East | Local bed: | X | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: informal lower limestone and siltstone | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: poorly exposed oncolitic limestone | |
| Environment: | offshore indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 10591 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | P. Borkow |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-05-25 11:08:22 | Last modified: | 2018-06-29 15:19:32 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-05-25 11:08:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3913. | L. B. McCollum and F. A. Sundberg. 1999. Biostratigraphy of the traditional Lower-Middle Cambrian boundary interval in the outher shelf Emigrant Formation, Split Mountain East Section, Esmeralda County, Nevada. Laurentai 99: V field conference of the Cambrian Stage Subdivision Working Group, International Subcomission on Cambrian Stratigraphy 29-34 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow] |