USGS D753-CO (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Inyo County, California (37.0° N, 118.1° W: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 84.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Badger Flat Formation, Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 458.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: D. C. Ross. 1966. Stratigraphy of some Paleozoic formations in the Independence quadrangle, Inyo County, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 396:1-64 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 196135: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 05.09.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Unidentifiable brachiopod, possibly an Orthidiella
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
"Orthambonites cf. mazourkensis" = Plectorthis mazourkaensis
"Orthambonites cf. mazourkensis" = Plectorthis mazourkaensis Phleger 1933
misspelled as "? Orthambonites mazourkaensis"
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
"Unidentifiable gastropods"
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
? Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite
"Isotelus-like trilobite"