UCMP loc. B6083 Mazourka Canyon: Whiterockian, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae - Archaeoscyphidae
Hesperocoelia undulata Bassler 1927
Demospongiae - Anthaspidellidae
Patellispongia cf. oculata Bassler 1927
Hexactinellida - Lyssacinosa - Stiodermatidae
? Hyalostelia sp.
Rhombifera - Glyptocystitidae
? Glyptocystis cf. forbesi (Billings 1857)
unclassified
? Mastopora sp. Eichwald 1840
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Inyo
Coordinates: 36.9° North, 118.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.2° North, 125.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Ordovician
10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 2-4
Key time interval: Whiterockian Brachiopod zone:  Anomalorthis
Age range of interval: 470 - 457 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Mazourka Formation:Badger Flat
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: starting in the Anomalorthis zone and possibly extending into the Rhysostrophia zone; Was Mazourka, but now Badger Flat
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:119486
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, J. Marcot Enterer:U. Merkel, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Marcot Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-10-27 23:45:47 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-10-27 23:45:47
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
38344. J. L. Greife and R. L. Langenheim, Jr. 1963. Sponges and brachiopods from the Middle Ordovician Mazourka Formation, Independence quadrangle, California. Journal of Paleontology 37(3):564-574 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Marcot]