Where: Columbia County, New York (42.3° N, 73.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° S, 91.8° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: West Castleton Formation, Caerfai (530.0 - 513.0 Ma)
• Stratigraphically overlies the Elliptocephala asaphoides fauna.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone
Collection methods: Collected by Bird and Rasetti
Primary reference: F. Rasetti and G. Theokritoff. 1967. Lower Cambrian agnostid trilobites of North America. Journal of Paleontology 41(1):189-196 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/L. Na]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8236: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 30.06.2000, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Artiopoda | |
Trilobita | |
Olenellus indet. Hall 1861 trilobite | |
Bivalvia | |
Fordilla sp. Barrande 1881 clam |