Hintze, 1951, Promontory Point section 590-590 (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as SF 420

Where: Box Elder County, Utah (41.2° N, 112.4° W: paleocoordinates 7.2° S, 81.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: G-2 trilobite zone, Garden City Formation, Tulean (480.8 - 474.9 Ma)

• Ibexian; Tulean

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• carbonate ramp, above wave base
• silty; grey; quartz-rich; thick-bedded

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 104148: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
Psalikilus typicum Ross 1951 trilobite