Where: California (41.4° N, 122.7° W: paleocoordinates 0.7° S, 78.9° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: 3 Member (Kangaroo Creek Formation), Llandeilian (466.0 - 460.9 Ma)
• Clasts of Caradocian age given other indicators
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and lithified conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: bulk, hydrochloric
Primary reference: A. W. Potter. 1990. Middle and Late Ordovician brachiopods from the eastern Klamath Mountains, northern California. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 212(1-6):31-158 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 100566: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 10.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Sigmelasma pantherae n. gen. n. sp.
Sigmelasma pantherae n. gen. n. sp. Potter 1990 |