Locality 5, Hillyard's Canyon, Zone "G(2)e", middle (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Franklin County, Idaho (42.1° N, 111.6° W: paleocoordinates 7.6° S, 80.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Protopliomerella contracta trilobite zone, Garden City Formation, Tulean (480.8 - 474.9 Ma)

• 60 foot interval beginning 786 feet above base of formation. Middle collection from biozone "G(2)e" at this locality. Zone G2e

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified conglomerate

• "Irregularly laminated, aphanitic limestone interbedded with coarse intraformational conglomerate, in 2- to 5-foot layers."

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 103800: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 02.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
Psalikilus typicum
Psalikilus typicum Ross 1951 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Menoparia genalunata
Menoparia genalunata Ross 1951 trilobite