Locality 6, Hillyard's Canyon, Zone "G(2)d" (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Franklin County, Idaho (42.1° N, 111.6° W: paleocoordinates 7.5° 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)

• 655 feet above base of formation. G(2)d Zone.

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

• Based on description of Garden City Formation from other sections in same reference.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by R. J. Ross, Jr. in 1946-1947; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: chemical,

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 103816: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 02.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Menoparia genalunata
Menoparia genalunata Ross 1951 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
? Asaphellus "sp. B", ? Basilicus sp.
? Asaphellus "sp. B" Callaway 1877 trilobite
? Basilicus sp. Salter 1849 trilobite
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
Psalikilus typicum
Psalikilus typicum Ross 1951 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
"Protopliomerops contracta" = Protopliomerella contracta
"Protopliomerops contracta" = Protopliomerella contracta Ross 1951 trilobite