Belted Range, Carrara Fm, Red Pass Limestone Mbr. (USGS 4437-CO): Delamaran, Nevada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Agnostida - Eodiscidae
Pagetia rugosa Rasetti 1966
Macannaia maladensis (Resser 1939)
Agnostida - Peronopsidae
? Peronopsis sp. Corda 1847
Peronopsis bonnerensis (Resser 1938)
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Ogygopsis typicalis (Resser 1979)
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae
Oryctocephalidae sp. Beecher 1897
Thoracocare idahoensis (Resser 1939)
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Elrathina antiqua n. sp. Palmer and Halley 1979
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Alokistocaridae
Chancia ? maladensis (Resser 1939)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nevada
Coordinates: 37.3° North, 116.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.0° South, 94.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cambrian
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 3
Key time interval: Delamaran Trilobite zone:  Albertella
Age range of interval: 511 - 506.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Carrara Member:Red Pass Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: The upper few meters of the member are locally rich in trilobites of the Zacanthoidid Zonule of the Albertella Zone (p. 59) in the Groom Range and the Nevada Test Site.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lime mudstone
Lithology description: The Red Pass Limestone Member generally forms a prominent cliff and consists of burrowed, oncolitic, and skeletal-fragment lime mudstones, oolite, and a variety of laminated lime mudstones and fenestral limestones.
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:149391
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, J. Marcot Enterer:M. Krause, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Marcot Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-08-03 23:39:34 Last modified:2022-08-02 16:13:43
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-11-03 23:39:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
47804. A. R. Palmer and R. B. Halley. 1979. Physical Stratigraphy and Trilobite Biostratigraphy of the Carrara Formation (Lower and Middle Cambrian) in the Southern Great Basin. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1047:1-131 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/J. Ju]