BR X 98 , Deadwood Form., Black Hills, South Dakota - Stitt and Straatmann 1997 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Meade County, South Dakota (44.3° N, 103.7° W: paleocoordinates 11.9° S, 82.3° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Taenicephalus zone, Deadwood Formation, Franconian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• Collection numbers represent exact footage above the base of the section. The X in the collection name indicates that the sample was not collected in situ but had not moved very far, and the footage given is approimate.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, green shale and lithified limestone

• The Black Hills is a domal basement uplift formed during the Laramide Orogeny.
• interbedded sequence of green fissile shale and intraclastic limestone.

Collection methods: bulk,

• Collected by Christina Lochman-Balk and her students. Only trilobites and brachiopods included in the collections.

Primary reference: J. H. Stitt and W. M. Straatmann. 1997. Trilobites from the upper part of the Deadwood Formation (Upper Franconian and Trempealeauan stages, Upper Cambrain), Black Hills, South Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 71(1):86-102 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9714: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 18.01.2001

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Taxonomic list

• Abundances are listed as cranidia-pygidia-librigenae-hypostomes (C-P-L-H), for polymeroid trilobites, cephalapygidia (C-P) for agnostid trilobites, and number of valves for brachiopods.
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Trilobita
 Olenida - Parabolinoididae
Taenicephalus shumardi
Taenicephalus shumardi Hall 1863 trilobite
(8-1-9-0)