Where: Franklin County, Idaho (42.1° N, 111.6° W: paleocoordinates 8.2° S, 77.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Paralenorthis-Orthidiella brachiopod zone, "Upper Cherty" Member (Garden City Formation), Rangerian (471.8 - 468.1 Ma)
• 80 feet interval 1356 feet above base of formation. Zone L.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, massive, gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. J. Ross, Jr. in 1946-1947; reposited in the YPM
Primary reference: R. J., J.r. Ross. 1951. Stratigraphy of the Garden City Formation in northeastern Utah, and its trilobite faunas. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 6:1-161 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 103788: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 02.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida | |
Protospongia sp. Salter 1864 glass sponge | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Anomalorthis sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
Blastoidocrinus cf. carchariaedens Billings 1859 |