Loc. 716 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Utah (39.0° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 4.5° S, 91.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bolaspidella trilobite zone, Marjum Formation, Marjumian (504.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• Listed as Upper to Middle Cambrian; Bolaspidella biozone (Marjumian; PJW)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; poorly lithified, lenticular, silty, calcareous shale

• Listed as Upper slope, zone:5
• Hard, pale-reddish-brown, platy-parting, laminated, calcareous clayshale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace, soft parts

Primary reference: D. E. G. Briggs and R. A. Robison. 1984. Exceptionally preserved nontrilobite arthropods and Anomalocaris from the Middle Cambrian of Utah. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 111:1-23 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77207: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 31.12.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Ptychagnostus punctuosus zone
Morania fragmenta
  -
Morania fragmenta Walcott 1919
Lingulata
  -
Lingulata indet. Gorjansky and Popov 1985
Trilobita
  - Burlingiidae
Schmalenseeia sp. Moberg 1903 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Alokistocaridae
 Ptychopariida - Menomoniidae
Bolaspidella sp. Resser 1937 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Marjumiidae
Artiopoda
 Vicissicaudata -
Emeraldella sp. Walcott 1912
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Hypagnostus parvifrons Linnarsson 1869
Pseudoperonopsis sp. Harrington 1938
Deuteropoda
 Hymenocarina - Perspicarididae
 Tuzoida - Tuzoiidae
Tuzoia guntheri Robison and Richards 1981
Hexactinellida
 Reticulosa - Protospongiidae
Diagoniella cyathiformis Dawson and Hinde 1889 glass sponge
Originally "Diagonella cyathiformis" Assumed spelling error.
Demospongiae
 Protomonaxonida - Leptomitidae
"Leptomitus metta" = Leptomitella metta
"Leptomitus metta" = Leptomitella metta Rigby 1983 demosponge
 Protomonaxonida - Hamptoniidae
Hamptonia bowerbanki Walcott 1920 demosponge
 Protomonaxonida - Choiidae
Choia hindei Dawson 1896 demosponge