2998/1A Beaver Creek Canyon (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Fremont County, Wyoming (42.5° N, 108.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° S, 84.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Limestone Member (Gallatin Formation), Franconian (501.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• 294 feet above base of the formation and 170 m above base of the member, above the Prosaukia-Ptychaspis zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. J. Okulitch and W. G. Bell. 1955. Gallatinospongia, a new siliceous sponge from the Upper Cambrian of Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 29(3):460-461 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122073: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Lithistida - Streptosolenidae
Gallatinospongia conica n. gen. n. sp.
Gallatinospongia conica n. gen. n. sp. Okulitch and Bell 1955 demosponge