Where: Meade County, South Dakota (44.3° N, 103.5° W: paleocoordinates 12.0° S, 82.3° W)
When: Ellipsocephaloides zone, Deadwood Formation, Franconian (501.0 - 485.4 Ma)
• Collection numbers represent exact footage above the base of the section. The X in the collection name indicates the sample was not collected in situ but had not moved very far, and the footage given is approximate.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified shale and lithified siltstone
Collection methods: Collected by Christina Lochman-Balk and her students. Only trilobites are included in the collection.
Primary reference: J. H. Stitt and W. M. Straatmann. 1997. Trilobites from the upper part of the Deadwood Formation (Upper Franconian and Trempealeauan stages, Upper Cambrain), Black Hills, South Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 71(1):86-102 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 9745: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 18.01.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
| |
|