UCMP loc. B-8026, Westgard Pass, White-Inyo Mountains: Waucoban, California
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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cf. Swartpuntia sp.
Narbonne et al. 1997
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Inyo |
| Coordinates: | 37.3° North, 118.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.1° South, 99.1° West | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 1-3 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Cambrian | *Epoch: | Caerfai |
| *International age/stage: | Tommotian - Atdabanian | ||
| Key time interval: | Waucoban | Trilobite zone: | Nevadella to Bonnia-Olenellus |
| Age range of interval: | 538.8 - 509 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Poleta | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Specimes found in the top of a thin (3cm) bed in lower 25 meters of formation. AGE: Waucoban; refined by A. Hendy (6/2009) on the basis of biostratigraphic data (= Bonnia-Olenellus zone). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified sandy siltstone |
| Lithology description: top of a thin (3cm) bed of very fine grained sandy siltstone. | |
| Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
| Geology comments: Samples are from the Great Basin deposits. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,replaced with silica |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
| Taxonomic list comments:List does not include the following trace fossil: Taphrhelminthopsis. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 9126 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | P. Borkow |
| Modifier: | J. Marcot | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-09-24 15:18:18 | Last modified: | 2022-06-30 14:10:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-09-24 15:18:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 794. | J. W. Hagadorn, C. M. Fedo, and B. M. Waggoner. 2000. Early Cambrian Ediacaran-type fossils from California. Journal of Paleontology 74(4):731-740 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Marcot] |