Where: Wyoming (44.7° N, 107.7° W: paleocoordinates 9.5° S, 66.7° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bighorn Formation, Maysvillian to Maysvillian (450.2 - 445.5 Ma)
• collected from thinly bedded limestones
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, white, argillaceous packstone and lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collection methods: surface (float),
• based on S.M. Holland unpublished field notes and collection from 3 August 2000
Primary reference: S. M. Holland. 2003. Unpublished field notes. [S. Holland/S. Holland/S. Holland]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35350: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 03.12.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Foerstephyllum sp. Bassler 1950 tabulate coral | |
Streptelasma sp. Hall 1847 horn coral
Bighornia sp. horn coral | |
Crinoidea | |
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Strophomenata | |
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824 | |
Megamyonia nitens Billings 1860 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dinorthis occidentalis Okulitch 1943 | |
Diceromyonia storeya Okulitch 1943 | |
Hypsiptycha anticostiensis Billings 1862
"Lepidocyclus gigas" = Hiscobeccus gigas Wang 1949
Rhynchotrema iowense Wang 1949 | |
Craniata | |
Petrocrania sp. Raymond 1910 | |
Stenolaemata | |
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Gastropoda | |
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Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail | |
Hormotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
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