Where: Meade County, South Dakota (44.1° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 12.1° S, 82.5° 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.
• formation-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 are included in the collection.
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 9719: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 18.01.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Parabolinoides contractus" = Orygmaspis (Parabolinoides), Taenicephalus shumardi
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