Kells Knolls, House Range (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Millard County, Utah (39.3° N, 113.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° S, 90.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Ptychagnostus punctuosus zone, Marjum Formation, Drumian (504.5 - 500.5 Ma)

• Drumian strata (Ptychagnostus punctuosus Biozone) of the middle Marjum Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; mudstone and limestone

• distal shelf to slope biofacies
• " thin-bedded limestone inter-bedded with shale/lime mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collection methods: reposited at BPM

Primary reference: S. Pates, R. Lerosey-Aubril, A.C. Daley, C. Kier, E. Bonino and J. Ortega-Hernandez. 2021. The diverse radiodont fauna from the Marjum Formation of Utah, USA (Cambrian: Drumian). PeerJ 9:1-43 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230677: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 11.07.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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 Radiodonta - Hurdiidae
Buccaspinea cooperi n. gen. n. sp.
Buccaspinea cooperi n. gen. n. sp. Pates et al. 2021