Sponge Gully, House Range (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Utah (39.2° N, 113.4° W: paleocoordinates 4.2° S, 91.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Bolaspidella zone, Marjum Limestone Formation, Marjumian (513.0 - 498.5 Ma)

• "Bolaspidella zone" (Marjumian; was Merioneth; PJW)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and shale

• "dark sh and ls. outer detrital belt, deep water (BA6) but algae present as in Burgess sh."

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. C. Rogers. 1984. Depositional environment and paleoecology of two quarry sites in the Middle Cambrian Marjum and Wheeler Formatinons, House Range, Utah. Brigham Young University Geology Studies 31:97-115 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 260: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "J.C.Rogers, 1984. Depositional environment and paleoecology of two quarry sites in the M.Camb. Marjum and Wheeler Fms., House Range, Utah. BYU Geol Studies 31:97-115."
Hexactinellida
 Reticulosa - Hintzespongiidae
Hintzespongia sp. Rigby and Gutschick 1976 glass sponge
 Reticulosa -
Valospongia sp. Rigby 1971 glass sponge
 Reticulosa - Protospongiidae
Diagoniella sp. Rauff 1894 glass sponge
2 species - originally entered as "Diagonella sp."
? Protospongia sp. Salter 1864 glass sponge
originally entered as "? Protospongia sp."
 Lyssacinosa -
"Testispongia sp." = Testiispongia
"Testispongia sp." = Testiispongia Rigby 1983 glass sponge
originally entered as "Testiispongia sp."
Demospongiae
 Protomonaxonida - Leptomitidae
Leptomitus sp. Walcott 1886 demosponge
 Protomonaxonida - Choiidae
Choia sp. Walcott 1920 demosponge
2 species
 Protomonaxonida - Hamptoniidae
Hamptonia sp. Walcott 1920 demosponge
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Menomoniidae
Bolaspidella sp. Resser 1937 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Marjumiidae
Modocia sp. Walcott 1924 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Agnostidae indet. M'Coy 1849
Malacostraca
 Phyllocarida -
Inarticulata
  -
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840