Reuter Canyon 1 [Deadwood Fm] (Cambrian of the United States)

Also known as RC 1

Where: Reuter Canyon County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 104.4° W: paleocoordinates 11.3° S, 82.2° 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: 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 8076: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Kyle Straub on 15.06.2000, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Kingstoniidae
Blountia "sp. indet." Walcott 1916 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Crepicephalidae
 Ptychopariida - Tricrepicephalidae
 Olenida - Asaphiscidae
Artiopoda
 Agnostida -
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Hadragnostus modestus Lochman 1944
Kormagnostus seclusus Walcott 1884
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae