Where: Utah (38.7° N, 113.4° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 30.8° N, 119.6° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Steamboat Pass Shale Member (Orr Formation), Furongian (497.0 - 486.9 Ma)
• Little horse canyon
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, silty limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Collection methods: Fossils were collected from the Steamboat Pass Shale member of the Orr formation, LC 135, 135ft from base of the formation
Primary reference: L. F. Hintze and A. R. Palmer. 1976. Upper Cambrian Orr Formation: Its Subdivisions and Correlatives in Western Utah. Geological Survey Bulletin 1405-G [M. Hopkins/S. Mahmood]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 156433: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 21.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Elburgia intermedia Palmer 1965 trilobite | |
Aphelotoxon acuminata Palmer 1960 trilobite | |
Prehousia diverta Palmer 1965 trilobite |