Locality 5, Hillyard's Canyon, Zone "G(2)e", middle: Tulean, Idaho
collected by R. J. Ross, Jr. 1946-1947
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Idaho | County: | Franklin |
| Coordinates: | 42.1° North, 111.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 7.6° South, 80.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Early Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 1-2 | ||
| Key time interval: | Tulean | Trilobite zone: | Protopliomerella contracta |
| Age range of interval: | 480.3 - 473.9 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Garden City | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 60 foot interval beginning 786 feet above base of formation. Middle collection from biozone "G(2)e" at this locality. Zone G2e | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | very fine lithified "limestone" |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified conglomerate |
| Lithology description: "Irregularly laminated, aphanitic limestone interbedded with coarse intraformational conglomerate, in 2- to 5-foot layers." | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | YPM | ||
| Collectors: | R. J. Ross, Jr. | Collection dates: | 1946-1947 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 103800 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Hopkins | Enterer: | M. Hopkins |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-02-02 09:11:36 | Last modified: | 2012-08-25 20:16:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-02-02 09:11:36 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 25414. | R. J., J.r. Ross. 1951. Stratigraphy of the Garden City Formation in northeastern Utah, and its trilobite faunas. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 6:1-161 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan/P. Wagner] |