E-15 ( of the United States)

Also known as SF 494

Where: Millard County, Utah (38.8° N, 113.6° W: paleocoordinates 6.4° S, 85.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Ibexian or Skullrockian; C? (C begins "within 10-20" of top of House Lms)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified siltstone

• carbonate ramp, above wave base
• grey; calcareous; some chert

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 104178: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011, edited by Melanie Hopkins

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
Paraplethopeltis genarectus1 Hintze 1953 trilobite
Paraplethopeltis genacurvus1 Hintze 1953 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Clarkellidae