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Campito - Andrews Mountain, USA

FormationCampito
MemberAndrews Mountain
Age:520 - 516 Ma
Cambrian
IntervalMontezuman - Atdabanian
Tectonic SettingPassive margin
Lithologysandstone
Number of Collections9
Number of Occurrences19

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
Base of Montezuman StageEsmeralda County, Nevada, USACampito - Andrews Mountain
MW-2Esmeralda County, Nevada, USACampito - Andrews Mountain
GCMEsmeralda County, Nevada, USACampito - Andrews Mountain
WPInyo County, California, USACampito - Andrews Mountain
Clayton Ridge [Andrews Mtn MbrEsmeralda County, Nevada, USACampito - Andrews Mountain
UCLA 6097Inyo County, California, USACampito - Andrews Mountain
UCLA 6102Inyo County, California, USACampito - Andrews Mountain
UCLA 6103Inyo County, California, USACampito - Andrews Mountain
UCLA 6104Inyo County, California, USACampito - Andrews Mountain

Associated Units

Stratigraphic NameAgeLithologyOccurrence Records
Campito - Montenegro530 - 513 Ma
Cambrian
siliciclastic, siltstone/sandstone, sandstone/packstone, siltstone, "shale"/sandstone, sandstone/"limestone", "shale"/siltstone, "limestone"/sandstone, sandstone, "limestone"/siltstone147

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Monocraterion sp.
genus
6Monocraterion530 - 516 Ma
Cambrian
Planolites beverleyensis
species
7Animalia : Planolites : Planolites beverleyensis530 - 516 Ma
Cambrian
Planolites montanus
species
7Animalia : Planolites : Planolites montanus530 - 516 Ma
Cambrian
Planolites reticulatus
species
7Planolites : Planolites reticulatus530 - 516 Ma
Cambrian
Planolites serpens
species
7Planolites : Planolites serpens530 - 516 Ma
Cambrian
Planolites virgatus
species
7Planolites : Planolites virgatus530 - 516 Ma
Cambrian
Fritzaspis sp.
genus
6Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Redlichiida : Archaeaspididae : Fritzaspis520 - 516 Ma
Cambrian
Fritzaspis generalis
species
7Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Redlichiida : Archaeaspididae : Fritzaspis : Fritzaspis generalis520 - 516 Ma
Cambrian
Fritzaspis ovalis
species
7Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Redlichiida : Archaeaspididae : Fritzaspis : Fritzaspis ovalis520 - 516 Ma
Cambrian
Repinaella sp.
genus
6Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Redlichiida : Fallotaspididae : Repinaella530 - 516 Ma
Cambrian
Amplifallotaspis keni
species
7Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Redlichiida : Fallotaspididae : Amplifallotaspis : Amplifallotaspis keni520 - 516 Ma
Cambrian
Fallotaspididae
family
5Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Redlichiida : Fallotaspididae530 - 516 Ma
Cambrian
Profallotaspis sp.
genus
6Animalia : Arthropoda : Trilobita : Redlichiida : Fallotaspididae : Profallotaspis520 - 516 Ma
Cambrian
Brachiopoda
phylum
2Animalia : Brachiopoda530 - 516 Ma
Cambrian

References

Alpert S. P. (1975) Planolites and Skolithos from the Upper Precambrian-Lower Cambrian, White-Inyo Mountains, California, Journal of Paleontology 49 3, 508-521
Hollingsworth J. S. (1999) The problematical base of the Montezuman Stages: should the Laurentian Fallotaspidids be in a non-trilobite series, Laurentia 99: V field conference of the Cambrian Stage Subdivision Working Group, International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy, 5-9
Hollingsworth J. S. (2007) Fallotaspidoid trilobite assemblage (Lower Cambrian ) from the Esmeralda Basin (western Nevada, USA): The oldest trilobites from Laurentia, Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 33, 123-140
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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