Cucomungo Canyon (USGS 7180-CO) (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Inyo County, California (37.3° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.9° S, 95.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Olenellus trilobite zone, Mule Spring Limestone Formation, Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

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 226626: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 18.07.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Biceratopsidae
Bristolia anteros Palmer and Halley 1979 trilobite