Where: Meade County, South Dakota (44.4° N, 103.7° W: paleocoordinates 11.8° S, 82.2° 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 is an approximate.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Collection methods: 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 9717: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 18.01.2001

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