Where: Sublette County, Wyoming (43.3° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 7.6° S, 83.9° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Cedaria trilobite zone, DuNoir Formation, Dresbachian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• The Open Door Formation underlies the Ordovician Bighorn dolomite Formation. 95.5 feet below top of DuNoir limestone. Was "Cedaria (Middle Cedaria subzone)".

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, green limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Collected from 1938 to 1941 by the Texas Christian University Geology Department

Primary reference: C. Lochman and C. H. Hu. 1960. Upper Cambrian faunas from the northwest Wind River Mountains, Wyoming. Part 1. Journal of Paleontology 34(5):793-834 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9055: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 19.09.2000

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