Locality 7, Franklin Basin, 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)

• 125-145 feet above base of formation. Zone B.

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

• Based on description of Garden City Formation from this reference.

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 103827: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 02.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
? Parahystricurus "sp. B" Ross 1951 trilobite
? Parahystricurus "sp. A" Ross 1951 trilobite
"Hystricurus paragenalatus n. sp." = Hintzecurus paragenalatus Ross 1951 trilobite
"Hystricurus genalatus" = Genalaticurus genalatus Ross 1951 trilobite
Politicurus sp. Adrain et al. 2003 trilobite
"Hystricurus politus n. sp." = Politicurus politus Ross 1951 trilobite
? Hystricurus "sp. G" Raymond 1913 trilobite
? Hystricurus "sp. H" Raymond 1913 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleuridiella caudalimbata Ross 1951 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Bellefontia chamberlaini Clark 1935 trilobite
? Bellefontia acuminiferentis Ross 1951 trilobite
Xenostegium franklinense n. sp. Ross 1951 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Kingstoniidae
Clelandia utahensis n. sp. Ross 1951 trilobite