30406 - Rare 2.02 Inch Nevadia weeksi Lower Cambrian Trilobite - Nevada USA
30406 - Rare 2.02 Inch Nevadia weeksi Lower Cambrian Trilobite - Nevada USA 30406 - Rare 2.02 Inch Nevadia weeksi Lower Cambrian Trilobite - Nevada USA 30406 - Rare 2.02 Inch Nevadia weeksi Lower Cambrian Trilobite - Nevada USA 30406 - Rare 2.02 Inch Nevadia weeksi Lower Cambrian Trilobite - Nevada USA 30406 - Rare 2.02 Inch Nevadia weeksi Lower Cambrian Trilobite - Nevada USA

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30406 - Rare 2.02 Inch Nevadia weeksi Lower Cambrian Trilobite - Nevada USA

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Species
† Nevadia weeksi (Walcott, 1910)
Age
Lower Cambrian (~541 Million Years)
Location
Nevada, U.S.A.
Formation
Nevada Lower Cambrian Outcrops
Size
51.4 mm   •    in
Weight
82 g   •    oz
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Description
Nevadia, Walcott 1910 (trilobite)
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Nevadiidae
 
PaleoDB taxon number: 19147

Full reference: C. D. Walcott. 1910. Cambrian geology and paleontology. No. 6 - Olenellus and other genera of the Mesonacidæ. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 53(6):231-422

Parent taxon: Nevadiidae according to B. S. Lieberman 1998

See also Fritz 1995, Lieberman 2001, Palmer and Repina 1993, Sepkoski 2002, Walcott 1910 and Whittington et al. 1997

Sister taxa: Buenellus, Nevadella, Pseudojudomia, Sanctaspis

Subtaxa: Nevadia addyensis, Nevadia fritzi, Nevadia weeksi

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Type: Holmia weeksi

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Environments: (3 collections), carbonate (1), marine (1), reef, buildup or bioherm (1)

Age range: 516.0 to 513.0 Ma

Distribution:

• Cambrian of Canada (3: Alberta, British Columbia collections), Mexico (1), United States (3: Nevada, Washington)
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