Where: Utah (38.8° N, 113.5° W: paleocoordinates 7.6° S, 82.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Wahwah Formation, Arenigian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, green mudstone and lithified packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
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 64555: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 10.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhombifera | |
Rhombifera indet. Zittel 1879 | |
Gastropoda | |
Archaeogastropoda indet. Thiele 1925 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Hesperonomia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
Diparelasma sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
Trilobita | |
? Carolinites sp. Kobayashi 1940 trilobite | |
Lachnostoma sp. Ross 1951 trilobite | |
"Kanoshia sp." = Hintzeia Harrington 1957 trilobite
Pseudocybele sp. Ross 1951 trilobite
? Cybelopsis sp. Poulsen 1927 trilobite |