High Lake Member, Great Basin, Blacksmith Fork Canyon (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Utah (39.3° N, 114.9° W: paleocoordinates 7.7° S, 71.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: High Lake Member (Laketown Dolomite Formation), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lenticular, gray dolomite

• light-gray to medium-gray, very finely to coarsely crystalline dolostone that is medium- to very thick-bedded, partly lenticular and laminated.

Collection methods: bulk, hydrochloric,

Primary reference: P. M. Sheehan. 1982. Late Ordovician and Silurian of the eastern Great Basin Part 4. Late Llandovery and Wenlock brachiopods. Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology 50:1-73 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug/Z. Krug]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51516: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 07.06.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
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Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida -
Pentamerida indet.
Pentamerida indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1931