Ruin Wash Lagerstätte, Pioche Fm, Unit C: Dyeran, Nevada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Zacanthoididae
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Zacanthopsis sp.
Resser 1938
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Trilobita
- Redlichiida
- Olenellidae
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Olenellus sp.
Hall 1861
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5 specimens | ||||||
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Olenellus gilberti
White 1874
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37 specimens | ||||||
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Olenellus chiefensis
Palmer 1998
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12 specimens | ||||||
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Olenellus terminatus
Palmer 1998
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10 specimens | ||||||
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Olenellus fowleri
Palmer 1998
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Trilobita
- Redlichiida
- Biceratopsidae
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Nephrolenellus geniculatus
Palmer 1998
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12 specimens | ||||||
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Bolbolenellus brevispinus
Palmer 1998
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nevada |
| Coordinates: | 37.8° North, 114.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.5° South, 95.3° 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 | ||
| Age range of interval: | 514.8 - 511 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Pioche | Member: | Combined Metals |
| Local section: | Unit C | Local bed: | 17.5 cm above base of section cm |
| Local order: | bottom to top |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
| Geology comments: the top of field unit C was defined by a horizon penetrated by several macroscopic, vertical, iron-filled burrows | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 156372 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | M. Krause |
| Modifier: | M. Krause | Research group: | micropaleontology |
| Created: | 2014-05-20 02:49:43 | Last modified: | 2014-05-20 04:51:08 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2014-08-20 02:49:43 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 51225. | M. Webster, R. G. Gaines, and N. C. Hughes. 2008. Microstratigraphy, trilobite biostratinomy, and depositional environment of the “Lower Cambrian” Ruin Wash Lagerstätte, Pioche Formation, Nevada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 268:100-122 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause] |