Resting Springs Range (USGS 3676-CO): Dyeran, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellus gilberti White 1874
Olenellus clarki (Resser 1928)
Olenellus fremonti Walcott 1910
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Biceratopsidae
Olenellus multinodus Palmer and Halley 1979
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California
Coordinates: 36.1° North, 116.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.8° South, 96.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Series 2
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 2-3
Key time interval: Dyeran Trilobite zone:  Olenellus
Age range of interval: 514.8 - 511 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Carrara Member:Pyramid Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Throughout the area of outcrop of the Carrara Formation, the lower 10 m of this member, or correlative beds in the east where the underlying Gold Ace Limestone Member is absent, contain the distinctive association of olenellids characteristic of the Olenellus multinodus Zonule.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:micaceous,brown,green "shale"
Lithology description: Throughout much of the study area the base of the member is a fossiliferous fissile green and brown micaceous shale (fig. 8A).
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:149696
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:J. Marcot Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-08-20 20:20:51 Last modified:2022-08-02 16:11:24
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-11-20 20:20:51
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]