Lover's Leap, USNM 18122, cl. 1 (Ordovician of the United States)

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

• Carbonate with limestone clasts

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

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Wangyuiidae
Sigmelasma pantherae n. gen. n. sp.
Sigmelasma pantherae n. gen. n. sp. Potter 1990