Candland Shale WS 660 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Utah (38.5° N, 113.5° W: paleocoordinates 5.4° S, 88.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

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

• Wah Wah Mountains

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, stromatolitic, gray shale

• lithology not mentioned

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: Fossils were collected from the Steamboat Pass Shale member of Wah Wah Summit in Wah Wah Mountains of the Orr formation, WS 660 ,660ft from base of the formation

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 156472: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 21.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Elviniidae
Dunderbergia sp.
Dunderbergia sp. Walcott 1924 trilobite
 Olenida - Pterocephaliidae
Pterocephalia sp.
Pterocephalia sp. Roemer 1849 trilobite
 Olenida - Aphelaspidae
Erixanium carinatum
Erixanium carinatum Palmer 1965 trilobite