A-10 ( of the United States)

Also known as SF 468

Where: Millard County, Utah (39.5° N, 113.4° W: paleocoordinates 6.5° S, 84.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paraplethopeltis seelyi trilobite zone, House Limestone Formation, Skullrockian (487.5 - 482.3 Ma)

• Ibexian - Skullrockian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

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

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 104152: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011, edited by Melanie Hopkins

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Clarkellidae
Syntrophina cf. campbelli2
Trilobita
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
"Hystricurus genalatus" = Genalaticurus genalatus2, Paraplethopeltis genarectus1, Paraplethopeltis genacurvus1
"Hystricurus genalatus" = Genalaticurus genalatus2 Ross 1951 trilobite
Paraplethopeltis genarectus1 Hintze 1953 trilobite
Paraplethopeltis genacurvus1 Hintze 1953 trilobite
1Boyce 1989; 2Hintze 1953