Collection 41196, Grassy Spring Mb., Pioche Shale, NV - Eddy and McCollum 1998: Solvan, Nevada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Ptychopariida
Mexicella granulata n. sp. Eddy and McCollum 1998
50 specimens
50 cranidia
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Panacus palmeri Eddy and McCollum 1998
7 specimens
7 cranidia
Volocephalina variosa n. sp. Eddy and McCollum 1998
24 specimens
24 cranida
Nyella granosa (Resser 1939)
3 specimens
recombined as Palmerara granosa
3 cranidia
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Zacanthoididae
Albertellina aspinosa Palmer and Halley 1979
44 specimens
27 cranidia, 17 pygidia, 7 hypostomes
Delamarella brevispinaspis n. gen., n. sp. Eddy and McCollum 1998
30 specimens
23 cranidia, 7 pygidia
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nevada County:Lincoln
Coordinates: 37.5° North, 114.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.0° South, 93.4° West
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cambrian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 3
*Period:Middle Cambrian - Late/Upper Cambrian *Epoch:St. David's
*International age/stage:Solvan
Key time interval:Solvan Zone: Albertella Biozone
Age range of interval:510.00000 - 504.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pioche Shale Member:Grassy Spring
Local section:Grassy Spring Local bed:35 meters from base of section
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified packstone
Lithology description: bioclastics (interpretted from figure 4. stratigraphic sections).
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Only trilobites from the Albertellina aspinosa were collected.
Metadata
Database number:9440
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:P. Borkow
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-11-03 18:21:52 Last modified:2003-07-18 18:05:03
Access level:the public Released:2001-03-22 12:03:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

810. 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]