Box Elder Creek 92 (Cambrian of the United States)

Also known as BEC 92

Where: Box Elder Creek County, South Dakota (44.2° N, 103.6° W: paleocoordinates 11.9° S, 82.3° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aphelaspis zone, lower Member (Deadwood Formation), Steptoean (497.0 - 493.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: foreshore; limestone and sandstone

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 7398: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Kyle Straub on 29.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Olenida - Aphelaspidae