Where: Inyo County, California (37.0° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° S, 93.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Monola Formation, Middle Cambrian (513.0 - 501.0 Ma)
• 15 to 20m above base of Monola Fm; Oryctocephalus indicus Biozone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; black, gray shale
Reposited in the UNSM
Primary reference: F. A. Sundberg and L.B. McCollum. 2003. Early and Mid Cambrian Trilobites from the Outer-shelf Deposits of Nevada and California, USA. Palaeontology 46(5):945-986 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69515: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 27.02.2007