Where: Franklin County, Idaho (42.1° N, 111.6° W: paleocoordinates 7.5° S, 80.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Psalikilopsis cuspicaudata trilobite zone, Garden City Formation, Tulean (480.8 - 474.9 Ma)
• Middle division within "Zone G(1)" of Ross (1951) and Hintze (1951, 1952) and Hintzeia celsaora trilobite zone of Ross et al 1997
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collected by J. M. Adrain, S. R. Westrop in the 1990s; reposited in the SUI
Collection methods: chemical,
Primary reference: J. M. Adrain, N. E. B. McAdams, and S. R. Westrop. 2009. Trilobite biostratigraphy and revised bases of the Tulean and Blackhillsian Stages of the Ibexian Series, Lower Ordovician, western United States. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 37:541-610 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 228285: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 25.11.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Menoparia genalunata Ross 1951 trilobite | |
Aulacoparia "sp. 8" Hintze and Jaanusson 1956 trilobite | |
Bathyuridae "sp. 1", Psalikilopsis cuspicaudata, Peltabellia "sp. 7", Licnocephala "sp. 3", Licnocephala bicornuta, Benthamaspis "sp. 4", Gladiatoria nielsenae, Gladiatoria gladiator
Bathyuridae "sp. 1" Walcott 1886 trilobite
Psalikilopsis cuspicaudata Ross 1953 trilobite
Peltabellia "sp. 7" Whittington 1953 trilobite
Licnocephala "sp. 3" Ross 1951 trilobite
Licnocephala bicornuta Ross 1951 trilobite
Benthamaspis "sp. 4" Poulsen 1946 trilobite
Gladiatoria nielsenae Adrain et al. 2012 trilobite
Gladiatoria gladiator Ross 1951 trilobite | |
Psalikilus "sp. 3" Ross 1951 trilobite |