Basal Ute Fm., SE Idaho (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Utah (42.2° N, 112.3° W: paleocoordinates 5.9° S, 85.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: ? Glossopleura zone, basal Member (Ute Formation), Merioneth (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• "Glossopleura zone?"

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and shale

• "thin bedded ls and sh. inner detrital? pre-orogenic geosyncline. BA2"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. B. Maxey. 1958. Lower and Middle Cambrian stratigraphy in northern Utah and southeastern Idaho. Geological Society America Bulletin 69:647-687 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Maxey, 1958"
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Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Alokistocaridae
Alokistocare sp.
Alokistocare sp. Lorenz 1906 trilobite
 Ptychopariida -
Kochina sp.
Kochina sp. Resser 1935 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
"? Elrathina sp." = Ptychoparella
"? Elrathina sp." = Ptychoparella Poulson 1927 trilobite
originally entered as "? Elrathina sp."
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Kootenia sp.
Kootenia sp. Walcott 1899 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Zacanthoididae
Zacanthoides sp.
Zacanthoides sp. Walcott 1888 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Glossopleura sp.
Glossopleura sp. Poulsen 1927 trilobite
Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae
"Iphidella sp." = Micromitra
"Iphidella sp." = Micromitra Meek 1873
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Acrothelidae
Acrothele sp.
Acrothele sp. Linnarsson 1876
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Acrotreta sp.
Acrotreta sp. Kutorga 1848
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Hyolithes sp.
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840