Where: Millard County, Utah (39.1° N, 113.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.3° N, 44.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chainman Shale Formation, Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Chainman Shale, limestone bed in the middle part. AGE: Chesterian, derived from Geolex.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Kopf & Sohn in 1953; reposited in the USGS
• COLLECTORS: R. Kopf and I. G. Sohn, 1954. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: R. H. Flower and M. Gordon. 1959. More Mississippian belemnites. Journal of Paleontology 33(5):809-842 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84403: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.10.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Hematites barbarae Flower and Gordon 1959 belemnite |