Where: Wyoming (44.7° N, 107.7° W: paleocoordinates 9.4° S, 66.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bighorn Formation, Ashgillian (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, shelly/skeletal, white, argillaceous packstone and lithified dolomite
Primary reference: S. E. Peters. 2003. Evenness, richness and the Cambrian-Paleozoic faunal transition in North America: an assemblage-level perspective. The University of Chicago 1-279 [S. Peters/S. Peters/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64473: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 09.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Rugosa sp. horn coral | |
Favositidae indet. Dana 1846 tabulate coral | |
Gastropoda | |
? Hormotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail | |
Archaeogastropoda sp. Thiele 1925 snail | |
Strophomenata | |
Megamyonia sp. Wang 1949 | |
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Lepidocyclus sp. Wang 1949
Rhynchotrema sp. Hall 1860 | |
Plaesiomys sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
? Hesperorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Diceromyonia sp. Wang 1949 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Stenolaemata sp. Borg 1926 | |
Ostracoda | |
Leperditicopida indet. Scott 1961 ostracod | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily |