Unit 20 collection BHC 19 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Utah (38.8° N, 113.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 30.8° N, 119.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Candland Shale Member (Orr Formation), Furongian (497.0 - 486.9 Ma)

• Big Horse Canyon

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• Covered, thin-bedded, forms ledge

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: Fossils were collected from the Candland Shale member of the Orr formation, unit 22 - BHC 19, 19ft 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 156412: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 21.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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"hyolithid" indet.
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Crepicephalidae
Coosina sp., Crepicephalus sp.
Coosina sp. Rasetti 1956 trilobite
Crepicephalus sp. Owen 1852 trilobite