Unit 32collection BHC 325 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Utah (38.8° N, 113.4° W: paleocoordinates 5.5° S, 88.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Candland Shale Member (Orr Formation), Furongian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• Big Horse Canyon

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown limestone

• Limestone, poorly exposed, thin bedded, brown weathering with some shaley partings

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: Fossils were collected from the Candland Shale member of the Orr formation, unit 32 - BHC 325, 325ft from base of Big Horse Canyon

Primary reference: L. F. Hintze and A. R. Palmer. 1976. Upper Cambrian Orr Formation: Its Subdivisions and Correlatives in Western Utah. Geological Survey Bulletin 1405-G [M. Hopkins/S. Mahmood]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156394: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 21.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Elviniidae