Also known as Giza Peak megaripple bed.

Where: Utah (38.9° N, 113.3° W: paleocoordinates 6.9° S, 84.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Protopliomerella contracta trilobite zone, Fillmore Formation, Tulean (480.8 - 474.9 Ma)

• Time slice 1d. 253 m (824 ft.) above the base of the Fillmore.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the FMNH

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: D. B. Blake and T. E. Guensburg. 2005. Implications of a new Early Ordovician asteroid (Echinodermata) for the phylogeny of asterozoans. Journal of Paleontology 79(2):395-399 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91151: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 07.09.2009, edited by Pete Wagner

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