Flour sack, Bright Angel Fm., Western Grand Canyon (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Arizona (36.0° N, 113.8° W: paleocoordinates 5.0° S, 91.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Glossopleura zone, Flour Sack Member (Bright Angel Formation), Merioneth (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• "Glossopleura zone"

Environment/lithology: marine; green sandstone and shale

• "green sh, sltst and fine ss, nearshore BA2"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. D. McKee and C. E. Resser. 1945. Cambrian history of the Grand Canyon region. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 563:1-232 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "McKee and Resser 1945, pg.31"

•McKee, E.D., and Resser, C.E., 1945, Cambrian history of the Grand Canyon region : Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 563, 232 pp.

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Eocrinoidea
 Gogiida - Eocrinidae
"Eocrinus sp." = Gogia
"Eocrinus sp." = Gogia Walcott 1917
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Alokistocaridae
Elrathia sp., Alokistocare sp.
Elrathia sp. Walcott 1924 trilobite
Alokistocare sp. Lorenz 1906 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Pachyaspis sp.
Pachyaspis sp. Resser 1938 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Bolaspididae
Acrocephalops sp.
Acrocephalops sp. Poulson 1927 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Anoria sp., Glossopleura sp., Clavaspidella sp.
Anoria sp. Walcott 1924 trilobite
Glossopleura sp. Poulsen 1927 trilobite
Clavaspidella sp. Poulson 1927 trilobite
 Olenida - Asaphiscidae
Glyphaspis sp.
Glyphaspis sp. Poulson 1927 trilobite
Kutorginata
 Kutorginida - Nisusiidae
Nisusia sp.
Nisusia sp. Walcott 1905
Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae
Paterina sp., Dictyonina sp.
Paterina sp. Beecher 1891
Dictyonina sp. Cooper 1942
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulella sp.
Lingulella sp. Salter 1866
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Hyolithes sp.
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840