G-3 (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as SF 324

Where: Millard County, Utah (38.8° N, 113.4° W: paleocoordinates 6.5° S, 85.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: E trilobite zone, Fillmore Limestone Formation, Stairsian (485.4 - 478.6 Ma)

• Ibexian; Stairsian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified conglomerate

• carbonate ramp, above wave base
• flat-pebble; grey

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by L.F. Hintze

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: L.F. Hintze. 1951. Lower Ordovician detailed stratigraphic sections for western Utah. Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey Bulletin 39:99 p. [A. Miller/A. Miller]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104109: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
Hystricurus "sp. C"
Hystricurus "sp. C" Raymond 1913 trilobite
species C of Ross, 1951
 Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Pseudohystricurus sp.
Pseudohystricurus sp. Ross 1951 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Tesselacauda sp.
Tesselacauda sp. Ross 1951 trilobite