ammonites
USNM 42013, Saline Range, California (Cambrian of the United States)

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

• 5-m-thick, greyish black 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