30533 - Rare 0.73 Inch Olenellus gilberti Lower Cambrian Trilobite - Nevada USA
30533 - Rare 0.73 Inch Olenellus gilberti Lower Cambrian Trilobite - Nevada USA 30533 - Rare 0.73 Inch Olenellus gilberti Lower Cambrian Trilobite - Nevada USA 30533 - Rare 0.73 Inch Olenellus gilberti Lower Cambrian Trilobite - Nevada USA

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30533 - Rare 0.73 Inch Olenellus gilberti Lower Cambrian Trilobite - Nevada USA

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Species
† Olenellus gilberti (White, 1874)
Age
Lower Cambrian,(~541 Million Years)
Location
Ruin Wash, Lincoln Co, Nevada (USA)
Formation
Lower C-Shale Mbr., Pioche Shale
Size
18.5 mm   •    in
Weight
110 g   •    oz
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Description
Olenellus gilberti, White 1874 (trilobite)
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Olenellidae
 
PaleoDB taxon number: 309544

Alternative combination: Olenellus (Olenellus) gilberti

Belongs to Olenellus according to A. R. Palmer and R. B. Halley 1979

See also Lesley 1889, Palmer 1998, Walcott 1884, Walcott 1886, Walcott 1891, Walcott 1908, Walcott 1910 and Webster 2015

Sister taxa: Olenellus (Angustolenellus), Olenellus (Georgiellus), Olenellus (Mesolenellus), Olenellus (Olenelloides), Olenellus (Olenellus), Olenellus agellus, Olenellus brachyomma, Olenellus bufrontis, Olenellus buttsi, Olenellus clarki, Olenellus claytoni, Olenellus crassimarginatus, Olenellus getzi, Olenellus gigas, Olenellus howelli, Olenellus nevadensis, Olenellus parvofrontatus, Olenellus puertoblancoensis, Olenellus robsonensis, Olenellus roddyi, Olenellus romensis, Olenellus thompsoni, Olenellus walcotti

Type specimen: Its type locality is USNM 31a, Log Cabin Mbr, Pioche Hills, which is in a St Davids carbonate limestone/mudstone in the Pioche Shale Formation of Nevada

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Environments: carbonate (2 collections), marine (2), shallow subtidal (2), coastal (1), transition zone/lower shoreface (1)

Age range: 513.0 to 501.0 Ma

Distribution:

• Cambrian of United States (44: California, Nevada, Utah collections)
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