Hintze’s K-North and K-South sections, Lehman Fm, Fossil Mnt (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Millard County, Utah (38.9° N, 113.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.1° S, 79.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lehman Formation, Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• Originally given as Histiodella altifrons zone, but that is for the underlying Kanosh.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone

• Below the Kanosh Fm is the mostly micritic Juab Limestone and above it is the sandy Lehman Formation.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. Ernst, P. D. Taylor, and M. A. Wilson. 2007. Ordovician bryozoans from the Kanosh Formation (Whiterockian) of Utah, USA. Journal of Paleontology 81(5):998-1008 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143891: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
Orbipora utahensis
Orbipora utahensis Hinds 1970