Striped Hills, Carrara Fm, Red Pass Limestone Mbr. (USGS 4432-CO) (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Nevada (36.7° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 94.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Plagiura-Poliella trilobite zone, Red Pass Limestone Member (Carrara Formation), Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)

• The lower beds are dominated by trilobites of the Kochaspid Zonule of the "Plagiura-Poliella" Zone.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; burrowed, oncoidal, ooidal, shelly/skeletal lime mudstone

• The Red Pass Limestone Member generally forms a

•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 149605: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.08.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Ptychopariida -
Ptychopariida sp.
Ptychopariida sp. Swinnerton 1915 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Plagiura ? sp.
Plagiura ? sp. Resser 1935 trilobite