USGS loc. D1396 CO, Funeral Mountains (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as SF 166

Where: Inyo County, California (36.4° N, 116.6° W: paleocoordinates 5.5° S, 85.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: J? trilobite zone, Ninemile Formation (Pogonip Group), Blackhillsian (474.9 - 470.0 Ma)

• Ibexian; was Antelope Valley Ls

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified siltstone

• carbonate platform
• nodular; green; silty, wavy partings

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by J. Ross, Jr. H. B. Barnes

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: R. J., J.r. Ross and H. B. Barnes. 1967. Some Middle Ordovician Brachiopods and Trilobites from the Basin Ranges, Western United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 523-D:D1-D4 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104637: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Ptyocephalus sp. Agassiz 1843 trilobite