USGS loc. D1399 CO, Funeral Mountains (Ordovician to of the United States)

Also known as SF 169

Where: Inyo County, California (36.4° N, 116.6° W: paleocoordinates 6.6° S, 82.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: L? brachiopod zone, Antelope Valley Formation (Pogonip Group), Rangerian to Rangerian (470.0 - 470.3 Ma)

• Whiterockian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• carbonate platform
• laminated; medium-bedded; thin to medium-bedded, separated by laminated layers

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

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

Collection methods: surface (float),

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 104640: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
"small ostracode"
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Ectenonotus sp. Raymond 1920 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
"Goniotelina sp." = Acidiphorus
"Goniotelina sp." = Acidiphorus Raymond 1925 trilobite
 Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Ischyrotoma sp. Raymond 1925 trilobite
 Proetida - Telephinidae
"Carolinites angustagena" = Carolinites sibiricus
"Carolinites angustagena" = Carolinites sibiricus Chugaeva 1964 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae
Ingria sp. Öpik 1930
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
"Orthambonites marshalli" = Paralenorthis marshalli
"Orthambonites marshalli" = Paralenorthis marshalli Wilson 1926
 Orthida - Orthidiellidae
Orthidiella extensa Ulrich and Cooper 1938