Locality 6, Hillyard's Canyon, Zone "B" (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: 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

• 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 103826: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 02.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
"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
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
? Bellefontia acuminiferentis Ross 1951 trilobite
Bellefontia chamberlaini Clark 1935 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleuridiella caudalimbata n. sp. Ross 1951 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Kingstoniidae
Clelandia utahensis Ross 1951 trilobite