Also known as R-280c and R-305
Where: Weber County, Utah (41.3° N, 111.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 30.7° N, 130.0° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ptychagnostus gibbus trilobite zone, Blacksmith Formation, Amgan (510.2 - 504.5 Ma)
• Topazan. 30.5 m above the base of the P. gibbus Zone & also 30.5 m above the top of a carbonate unit with capping lenses of bioclastic limestone that contain a distinctive "Glyphaspis fauna,"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: brown, gray claystone and bentonitic limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. A. Robison. 1978. Origin, taxonomy, and homeomorphs of Doryagnostus (Cambrian Trilobita). University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 91:1-10 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 225065: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.04.2022
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Elrathina sp." = Ptychoparella
"Elrathina sp." = Ptychoparella Poulson 1927 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
Ptychagnostus intermedius Tullberg 1880
Ptychagnostus seminula Whitehouse 1939
"Ptychagnostus gibbus" = Triplagnostus gibbus Linnarsson 1869 | |
Doryagnostus wasatchensis n. sp.
Doryagnostus wasatchensis n. sp. Robison 1978 | |
Peronopsis fallax Linnarsson 1869 |