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: Bellefontia-Xenostegium trilobite zone, Garden City Formation, Gasconadian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)
• 117-126 feet above base of formation. Zone B.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithology not reported
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 103826: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 02.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Hystricurus genalatus n. sp." = Genalaticurus genalatus, "Hystricurus paragenalatus" = Hintzecurus paragenalatus, "Hystricurus politus" = Politicurus politus
"Hystricurus genalatus n. sp." = Genalaticurus genalatus Ross 1951 trilobite
"Hystricurus paragenalatus" = Hintzecurus paragenalatus Ross 1951 trilobite
"Hystricurus politus" = Politicurus politus Ross 1951 trilobite | |
? Bellefontia acuminiferentis Ross 1951 trilobite
Bellefontia chamberlaini Clark 1935 trilobite | |
Remopleuridiella caudalimbata n. sp. Ross 1951 trilobite | |
Clelandia utahensis Ross 1951 trilobite |