Drum Mountains (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Millard County, Utah (39.5° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 4.6° S, 91.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wheeler Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• 30 m from the top of the formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: paralic; lithified shale

• The uppermost 45 m of the Wheeler Shale consists of shallow subtidal and peritidal lithologies with sedimentary structures that indicate well-protected environments, which were occasionally disturbed by high-energy storm waves.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby, S. B. Church, and N. K. Anderson. 2010. Middle Cambrian sponges from the Drum Mountains and House Range in western Utah. Journal of Paleontology 84(1):66-78 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106179: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.03.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Demospongiae
  - Vauxiidae
Vauxia bellula
Vauxia bellula Walcott 1920 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida -
? Sentinelia cf. draco
? Sentinelia cf. draco Walcott 1920 demosponge
 Protomonaxonida - Choiidae
Choia carteri, Choia ridleyi
Choia carteri Walcott 1920 demosponge
Choia ridleyi Walcott 1920 demosponge
 Protomonaxonida - Hamptoniidae
Hamptonia parva n. sp., Hamptonia bowerbanki
Hamptonia parva n. sp. Rigby et al. 2010 demosponge
Hamptonia bowerbanki Walcott 1920 demosponge
Hexactinellida
 Reticulosa - Hintzespongiidae
Hintzespongia bilamina
Hintzespongia bilamina Rigby and Gutschick 1976 glass sponge
 Reticulosa - Protospongiidae
Diagoniella hindei, Diagoniella magna n. sp.
Diagoniella hindei Walcott 1920 glass sponge
Diagoniella magna n. sp. Rigby et al. 2010 glass sponge