Candland Shale WS 295 (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: Big Horse Limestone Member (Orr Formation), Furongian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• Wah Wah Mountains

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

• 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 295 ,295ft 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 156480: 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
  - Llanoaspididae
Llanoaspis sp.
Llanoaspis sp. Lochman 1938 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Crepicephalidae
Crepicephalus sp., Coosina sp.
Crepicephalus sp. Owen 1852 trilobite
Coosina sp. Rasetti 1956 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Tricrepicephalidae
Tricrepicephalus sp.
Tricrepicephalus sp. Kobayashi 1935 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Lonchocephalidae
Terranovella sp.
Terranovella sp. Lochman 1938 trilobite