Collection 41156, 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 - Corynexochida - Zacanthoididae
Albertella highlandensis n. sp. Eddy and McCollum 1998
22 specimens
4 cranidia, 8 pygidia, 10 librigena
Trilobita - Ptychopariida
Mexicella mexicana Lochman 1948
12 specimens
12 cranidia
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Volocephalina connexa Palmer and Halley 1979
1 specimen
1 cranidium
Plagiura minor Palmer and Halley 1979
2 specimens
2 cranidia
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nevada County:Lincoln
Coordinates: 37.9° North, 114.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.2° South, 93.1° 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 - 504.5 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pioche Shale Member:Grassy Spring
Local section:Black Canyon North #3 Local bed:86 meters from base of bed
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified packstone
Lithology description: bioclastics
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:9451
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:P. Borkow
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-11-04 17:47:07 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]