Little Elk Creek 78 [Deadwood Fm] (Cambrian of the United States)

Also known as LEC 78

Where: Little Elk Creek County, South Dakota (44.3° N, 103.6° W: paleocoordinates 11.9° S, 82.3° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Crepicephalus trilobite zone, lower Member (Deadwood Formation), Dresbachian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• AGE: Dresbachian; refined by A. Hendy (6/2009) on the basis of biostratigraphic data (= Crepicephalus zone).

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and sandstone

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: J. H. Stitt and P. J. Perfetta. 2000. Trilobites, Biostratigraphy, and Lithostratigraphy of the Crepicephalus and Aphelaspis zones, Lower Deadwood formation (Marjuman and Steptoean Stages, Upper Cambrian), Black Hills, South Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 74(2):199-223 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Straub/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7285: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Kyle Straub on 22.05.2000, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Kingstoniidae
Blountia "sp. indet." Walcott 1916 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Crepicephalidae
Coosia alethes Walcott 1916 trilobite
Coosina ariston Walcott 1916 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Tricrepicephalidae
 Olenida - Asaphiscidae
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae