Zacanthoidid biofacies, Carrara Fm.: Delamaran, Nevada and California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Tergomya
- Cyrtonellida
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Cyrtonellida indet.
Horný 1963
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Dolichometopidae
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Poliella sp.
(Walcott 1916)
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Oryctocephalidae
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Oryctocephalina sp.
Tomashpolskaya 1961
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Oryctocephalites sp.
Resser 1939
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Zacanthoididae
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Zacanthoides sp.
Walcott 1888
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Paralbertella sp.
Palmer and Halley 1979
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Ptarmiganoides sp.
Rasetti 1951
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Albertelloides sp.
Fritz 1968
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Dorypygidae
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Kootenia sp.
(Walcott 1899)
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Trilobita
- Ptychopariida
- Ptychopariidae
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Pachyaspis sp.
Resser 1938
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Caborcella sp.
Lochman 1948
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Volocephalina sp.
Palmer and Halley 1979
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Syspacephalus sp.
Resser 1936
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Nyella sp.
Palmer and Halley 1979
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Trilobita
- Ptychopariida
- Alokistocaridae
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Chancia sp.
Walcott 1924
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Agnostida
- Eodiscidae
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Pagetia sp.
Walcott 1916
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Agnostida
- Peronopsidae
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Peronopsis sp.
Corda 1847
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Eocrinoidea
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Eocrinoidea indet.
Jaekel 1918
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Nevada and California |
| Coordinates: | 39.2° North, 119.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 0.6° North, 91.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 3 | ||
| *Period: | Late/Upper Cambrian | ||
| *International age/stage: | Lenian | ||
| Key time interval: | Delamaran | Zone: | Albertella |
| Age range of interval: | 511 - 506.5 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Carrara | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "l. M.Camb. ~Lenian, Albertella zone" |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
| Geology comments: "coarse bioclastic limestone, shoal water carbonate bank (but subtidal), non-orogenic miogeocline, BA3" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:"Palmer and Haley 1979 USGS Prof Papr 1047; Palmer and Campbell 1976 BYU Geol. Studies 23(2)" [mostly trilobites] | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 202 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Sepkoski | Enterer: | M. Sommers |
| Modifier: | J. Marcot | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-03-21 13:33:38 | Last modified: | 2022-08-02 16:24:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-03-21 13:33:38 |
| 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] |