Hintze 1951, Desert Range Experimental Station sections 37-63 (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as SF 682

Where: Millard County, Utah (38.6° N, 113.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.0° S, 80.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Watson Ranch Quartzite Formation, Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• Whiterockian; stage uncertain

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• inner shelf
• silty; grey

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by L.F. Hintze

Collection methods: surface (float),

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 104268: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia bivia
Leperditia bivia White 1874 ostracod
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Nileidae
? Barrandia sp.
? Barrandia sp. M'Coy 1849 trilobite