Snake Range, LACMIP 15572 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: White Pine County, Nevada (38.8° N, 114.3° W: paleocoordinates 3.6° S, 92.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Altiocculus trilobite zone, E Member (Pole Canyon Formation), Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)

• 2.93 m above base of section B6, Altiocculus subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: F. A. Sundberg. 1994. Corynexochida and Ptychopariida (Trilobita, Arthropoda) of the Ehmaniella biozone (Middle Cambrian), Utah and Nevada. Contributions in Science 446:1-137 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 134256: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.10.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Elrathina wheelera Sundberg 1994 trilobite
Bathyocos housensis Sundberg 1994 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Alokistocaridae
Chanciaopsis heteromorphos Sundberg 1994 trilobite