Phi Kappa Formation, Little Fall Creek section, sample 62ICn 494 (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Idaho (43.8° N, 114.2° W: paleocoordinates 5.9° S, 74.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Glossograptus hincksii graptolite zone, Phi Kappa Formation, Llandeilian (466.0 - 460.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; shale

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: C. Carter and M. Churkin. 1977. Ordovician and Silurian graptolite succession in the Trail Creek area, central Idaho-a graptolite zone reference section. Geological Survey Professional Paper [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145329: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 31.05.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae
Glyptograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
rare
 Graptoloidea - Glossograptidae
Cryptograptus tricornis Carruthers 1859 graptolite
frequent
Glossograptus hincksii Hopkinson 1872 graptolite
frequent