Gold Point Fossil Locality

Gold Point, Esmeralda County, Nevada

A paleontology enthusiast inspects fossiliferous limestones at the base of a fossiliferous hill. The Lower Cambrian Harkless Formation in the Gold Point fossil zone yields the largest single assemblage of Early Cambrian trilobites yet described from North America--at least 12 species of trilobites representing six Families.

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