Locality 5, Hillyard's Canyon, Zone "D" (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Franklin County, Idaho (42.1° N, 111.6° W: paleocoordinates 7.3° S, 81.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Leiostegium-Kainella trilobite zone, Garden City Formation, Demingian (485.4 - 478.6 Ma)

• 2 foot interval at 143 feet above base of formation. Zone D.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• "Coarsely crystalline 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 103810: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 02.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
"Leiostegium manitouense" = Leiostegium manitouensis
"Leiostegium manitouense" = Leiostegium manitouensis Walcott 1925 trilobite