UCMP loc. B-9877, White-Inyo Mountains (Ediacaran of the United States)

Where: Inyo County, California (37.3° N, 118.1° W: paleocoordinates 39.9° S, 124.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Reed Formation, Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• The fossils occur about 3 meters below the top of the formation and range through a vertical stratigraphic distance of about 12 meters.

Environment/lithology: lithified, massive, coarse-grained, white dolomite and carbonate

• The Reed Dolomite in general con- sists of rather coarse-textured, white- weathering, thickly bedded to massive dolomite. Incompletely dolomitized car- bonate rocks, such as those in which the fossils occur, are rare in the area examined.

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: replaced with dolomite

Collected by J. Wyatt Durham and Roland A. Gangloff in 1962

Collection methods: peel or thin section

• Sections were made through blocks having surface areas of about 10 cm square. Individual shells were then selected and "mapped" on the initial peel so that they could be located in subsequent peels. Five to ten serial sections were made in sequence, 0.1 to 0.2 mm apart, through about 100 individual fossils.

Primary reference: M. E. Taylor. 1966. Precambrian Mollusc-like Fossils from Inyo County, California. Science 153(3732):198-201 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 190814: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 18.12.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Calyptoptomatida
 Globorilida -
Wyattia reedensis n. gen. n. sp.
Wyattia reedensis n. gen. n. sp. Taylor 1966