Where: Nevada (37.3° N, 116.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 94.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Albertella trilobite zone, Red Pass Limestone Member (Carrara Formation), Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)
• The upper few meters of the member are locally rich in trilobites of the Zacanthoidid Zonule of the Albertella Zone (p. 59) in the Groom Range and the Nevada Test Site.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lime mudstone
•prominent cliff and consists of burrowed, oncolitic, and
•skeletal-fragment lime mudstones, oolite, and a variety of
•laminated lime mudstones and fenestral limestones.
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 149393: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 03.08.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Ogygopsis typicalis Resser 1979 trilobite |