Hintze 1951, Crystal Peak section 43-43 (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as SF 529, CP-8

Where: Millard County, Utah (38.8° N, 113.6° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 81.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: M brachiopod zone, Kanosh Shale Formation, Dapingian (470.0 - 467.3 Ma)

• Whiterockian; Kanoshian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified shale

• outer shelf/dysoxic basin
• grey; green; fissile, 10% calcarenite interbeds

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by L.F. Hintze

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: L.F. Hintze. 1951. Lower Ordovician detailed stratigraphic sections for western Utah. Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey Bulletin 39:99 p. [A. Miller/A. Miller]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104198: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• bryozoan colonies
Ostracoda
 Leperditellocopida - Aparchitidae
Macronotella sp. Ulrich 1894 ostracod
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
 Orthida - Anomalorthidae
Anomalorthis utahensis Ulrich and Cooper 1936