This means that there are no showers, running water, or toilets. Hence you will be looking at and collecting some of the oldest animal fossils.
Trilobites are the predominant fossil here.
At the time these sediments were deposited, the Mojave area was a shallow water carbonate platform near the equator. We will be examining the nature of the sediments in the field and we will discuss what types of information you can infer about the past environment based on this data. We will talk about using both sedimentological and fossil evidence taken in the field to help reconstruct the Cambrian Mojave environment. If you are lucky you may find a fossil of Anomalocaris, which was is the earliest known large predator. This material is formed mostly from the skeletons of invertebrate animals, but can also precipitate out of the seawater due to the activities of microorganisms or due to seawater chemistry.