Also known as BYU Locality 11029; Ophir Canyon; Soldier Canyon

Where: Tooele County, Utah (40.4° N, 112.2° W: paleocoordinates 3.7° N, 40.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Manning Canyon Shale Formation, Morrowan (323.2 - 318.6 Ma)

• "upper part of the Manning Canyon shale, 800 feet above the base of the formation, in lowermost Pennsylvanian rocks" also called "oldest Springeran" = Morrowan

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Brigham Young University collection

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby and R. M. Moyle. 1959. Some Mississippian and Pennsylvanian sponges from Utah. Journal of Paleontology 33(3):399-403 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90979: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 28.08.2009

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