Also known as Upper Asbill Pond Formation, location 1
Where: South Carolina (34.0° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 29.6° S, 94.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ptychagnostus atavus trilobite zone, Upper mudstone Member (Asbill Pond Formation), Marjumian (504.5 - 497.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: S. Samson, A. R. Palmer, R. A. Robison and D. T. Secor. 1990. Biogeographical significance of Cambrian trilobites from the Carolina slate belt. Geological Society America Bulletin 102:1459-1470 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75062: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 18.09.2007
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Taxonomic list
Artiopoda | |
Ptychagnostus sp. Jaekel 1909
Tomagnostus fissus Lundgren 1879 | |
Trilobita | |
Skreiaspis sp. Ruzicka 1946 trilobite
Agraulos sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Paradoxides cf. polonicus trilobite
Paradoxides sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite |