USGS loc. D1398 CO, Funeral Mountains (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as SF 168

Where: Inyo County, California (36.4° N, 116.6° W: paleocoordinates 6.2° S, 84.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: L? brachiopod zone, Antelope Valley Formation (Pogonip Group), Dapingian (470.0 - 467.3 Ma)

• Trilobites in USGS colln. D1398 CO from 11 ft above base and other fossils from upper part taken from float derived from within top 25 ft.

•Dapingian after Adrain et al., 2020

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray, red limestone

• carbonate platform
• Limestone, dark-gray, in 2- to 6-in. layers separatedby :pale-red finely laminated limestone that weath-ers pink. Forms nonresistant slope, partly coveredby float.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by J. Ross, Jr. H. B. Barnes; reposited in the USNM

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 104639: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
"Orthambonites eucharis" = Sivorthis eucharis
"Orthambonites eucharis" = Sivorthis eucharis Ulrich and Cooper 1938
 Orthida - Orthidiellidae
Orthidiella sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Trilobita
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Strigigenalis sp., "Goniotelina hesperia" = Acidiphorus hesperia
Strigigenalis sp. Whittington and Ross 1953 trilobite
"Goniotelina hesperia" = Acidiphorus hesperia Ross and Barnes 1967 trilobite
 Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Ischyrotoma sp. Raymond 1925 trilobite
 Proetida - Telephinidae
"Carolinites angustagena" = Carolinites sibiricus
"Carolinites angustagena" = Carolinites sibiricus Chugaeva 1964 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichidae
Apatolichas sp. Whittington 1963 trilobite
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Funeralaspis deathvalleyensis Adrain and PĂ©rez-Peris 2023 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Protocalymene mcallisteri Ross and Barnes 1967 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
"Cydonocephalus scrobiculus" = Kawina scrobiculus
"Cydonocephalus scrobiculus" = Kawina scrobiculus Whittington 1963 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Ectenonotus whittingtoni Ross and Barnes 1967 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
"Raymondaspis vespertinus" = Raymondaspis vespertina
"Raymondaspis vespertinus" = Raymondaspis vespertina Ross and Barnes 1967 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx compactus Ross and Barnes 1967 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus hesperaffinis Ross and Barnes 1967 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Trinodus cf. clusus Whittington 1963