Parker Community, Parker Slate: Dyeran, Vermont

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Eocrinoidea - Ascocystitida
Eocystites sp. Billings 1868
Radiodonta - Anomalocarididae
? Anomalocaris sp.
originally entered as "? Anomalocaris sp."
Agnostida - Eodiscidae
Pagetides sp. Rasetti 1945
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellus sp. Hall 1861
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Chengkouaspididae
Bathynotus sp. Hall 1860
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Protypus sp. Walcott 1986
Bonnia sp. (Walcott 1916)
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Zacanthoididae
Prozacanthoides sp. Resser 1937
Trilobita - Antagmidae
Periomma sp. Resser 1936
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Ptychoparella sp. Poulson 1927
unclassified
Billingaspis sp.
Protocaris sp.
Tuzoida - Tuzoiidae
Tuzoia sp. Walcott 1912
Paterinata - Paterinida - Paterinidae
Paterina sp. Beecher 1891
Kutorginata - Kutorginida - Nisusiidae
Nisusia sp. Walcott 1905
Kutorginata - Kutorginida - Kutorginidae
Rustella sp. Walcott 1905
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Bohemiellidae
? Wimanella sp. Walcott 1908
originally entered as "? Wimanella sp."
unclassified
? Emmonsaspis sp. Resser and Howell 1938
originally entered as "? Emmonsaspips sp."
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Leptomitidae
Leptomitus sp. Walcott 1886
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Vermont
Coordinates: 44.5° North, 73.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.6° South, 85.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Series 2
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 2-3
*Period:Early/Lower Cambrian *Epoch:Lower
Key time interval: Dyeran Trilobite zone:  Bonnia - Olenellus
Age range of interval: 514.8 - 511 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Parker Slate
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: "uLCamb.", 150 ft. above base. PJW: This should be Dyeran given collection & probable trilobite zone. Questionable trilobite zone, though.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: "black sh w some thin ls or dolo and congl. (debris flow?). outer shelf. geosynclinal. (Palmer:outer detrital belt) BA4? 19 May '87: PRobably BA5 or BA6 (Lagerstatten)"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"A.B. Shaw 1955. Paleontology of NW Vermont. V. The Lower Cambrian Fauna. Journal of Paleontology 29:775-805"
Metadata
Database number:191
Authorizer:J. Sepkoski Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-03-21 13:12:45 Last modified:2023-11-14 15:14:17
Access level:the public Released:1999-03-21 13:12:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
56540. A. B. Shaw. 1955. Paleontology of Northwestern Vermont. V. The Lower Cambrian Fauna. Journal of Paleontology 29(5):775-805 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]