Mazourka Canyon (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as About one-half mile below the Lead Canyon trail

Where: Inyo County, California (36.9° N, 118.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 15.2° N, 125.5° W (Wright 2013)

When: Badger Flat Formation, Whiterockian (471.3 - 457.3 Ma)

• Stated as Mazourka Formation, which has been split into the Al Rose and Badger Flat Formations

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray, argillaceous limestone

• The shale beds grade into an argillaceous limestone, which is interbedded at infrequent intervals with a few thin shale layers. The limestone is dark gray on fresh fracture and weathers in light and dark discontinuous bands. It is abundantly fossiliferous and continues to the top of the formation.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, recrystallized

Collected by Fred B. Phleger, Jr. and John H. Bradley, Jr in 1931

Primary reference: F. B. Phleger, Jr. 1933. Notes on certain Ordovician faunas of the Inyo Mountains, California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 32(1):1-21 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 205650: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 17.10.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Plectorthis mazourkaensis n. sp., "Plectorthis patulus n. sp." = Plectorthis patula
Plectorthis mazourkaensis n. sp. Phleger 1933
"Plectorthis patulus n. sp." = Plectorthis patula Phleger 1933
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Lloydia obsoletus n. sp.
Lloydia obsoletus n. sp. Phleger 1933 trilobite