Bed 2, Wasatch Range, Big Cottonwood Canyon (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Wasatch County, Utah (40.6° N, 111.7° W: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 91.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Albertella - Kochaspis zone, Pioche Formation, Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)

• Albertella - Kochaspis subzone of Glossopleura zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; micaceous, gray, green, argillaceous shale

• absolutely nothing written of lithol. "pre-orogenic geosyncline"
• Greenis-brown micaceous arenaceous shale

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: G. B. Maxey. 1958. Lower and Middle Cambrian stratigraphy in northern Utah and southeastern Idaho. Geological Society of America Bulletin 69(6):1-647 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 269: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Maxey, 1958"
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Sulcavitidae
"Hyolithes billingsi" = Linevitus billingsi
"Hyolithes billingsi" = Linevitus billingsi Walcott 1886
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Obolus (Westonia) ella Hall and Whitfield 1877
Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae
"Micromitra (Iphidella) pannula" = Dictyonina pannula
"Micromitra (Iphidella) pannula" = Dictyonina pannula White 1874
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Alokistocaridae
Ehmaniella ? quadrans Hall and Whitfield 1877 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Glossopleura producta Hall and Whitfield 1877 trilobite
 Tuzoida - Tuzoiidae