CCE-87-13 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Floyd County, Georgia (34.2° N, 85.3° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° S, 96.8° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Oryctocephalus trilobite zone, Conasauga Formation, Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)

• There may have been a regional transgression from Oryctocephalus to Bolaspidella time on the southeastern most continental shelf.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified shale

• orange-tan, soft, poorly fissile, noncalcareous shales.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: This collection is noted as only containing trilobites and does not involve any other possible taxa found in the set volumes of rock or outcrops.

Primary reference: D. R. Schwimmer. 1989. Taxonomy and biostratigraphic significance of some Middle Cambrian trilobites from the Conasauga Formation in western Georgia. Journal of Paleontology 63(4):484-494 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8582: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 07.08.2000

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Olenida - Asaphiscidae
Glyphaspis cf. capella Walcott 1916 trilobite