M-WC-1. 0.87 miles N 77.5˚W School #9, Colchester Township: Dyeran, Vermont
collected by Cecil H. Kind Kindle

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Tergomya - Cyrtonellida
Cyrtonellida indet. Horný 1963
13 specimens
"New gastropod" in original list
Tergomya - Tryblidiida - Protoconchoididae
Scenella (Protoconchoides) varians (Walcott 1886)
7 specimens
recombined as Protoconchioides varians
Hyolithida
Hyolithes communis Billings 1872
1 specimen
recombined as Insolitotheca communis
Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Hyolithes americanus Hall 1847
2 specimens
Paterinata - Paterinida - Paterinidae
Paterina swantonensis
1 specimen
Paterina labradorica swantonensis
Kutorginata - Kutorginida - Nisusiidae
Nisusia festinata (Billings 1861)
7 specimens
7V, 5D
Kutorginata - Kutorginida - Kutorginidae
Kutorgina cingulata (Billings 1861)
2 specimens
2V, 1D
Obolellata - Naukatida - Naukatidae
? Swantonia sp. Walcott 1905
1 specimen
originally entered as "? Swantonia sp."
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Billingsaspis adamsii
14 specimens
Trilobita - Antagmidae
Antagmus typicalis
13 specimens
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellus brachycephalus
40 specimens
40C, 2H
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Holmiidae
Esmeraldina hermani
2 specimens
[entered as Esmereldina hermani]
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Bonnia capito (Walcott 1916)
18 specimens
18C, 13P, 2H; misspelled "Connia" in table 1
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Zacanthoididae
Prozacanthoides sp. Resser 1937
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Vermont County:Chittenden
Coordinates: 44.5° North, 73.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.6° South, 85.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Series 2
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 2-3
*Period:Early/Lower Cambrian - Middle Cambrian *Epoch:Lower
Key time interval:Dyeran Zone: Bonnia
Age range of interval:514.80000 - 511.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Monkton Quartzite
Local section:WC Local bed:410 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "u. L.Cambrian "Bonnia zone" (which is Dyeran, had been Caefai-StDavids; PJW)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:desiccation cracks,current ripples quartzite
Secondary lithology: dolomite
Lithology description: Most of the matrix in which the fossils are found is a leached, porous, quartz sandstone, light gray or stained brown by iron oxide. The sand is mainly fine-grained, but some is very fine. In the least weathered specimens there is less porosity and a small percentage of dolomite cement.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: "alternating qtzite and dolo, nearshore, geosynclinal, BA1"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Cecil H. Kind Kindle
Taxonomic list comments:"A.B. Shaw 1962. Paleontology of northwestern VT. IX. Fauna of the Monkton Quartzite. J. Paleo. 36:332-345."
Metadata
Also known as:=Collection I in Tasch (1949). Was "Monkton Quartzite Fm."
Database number:194
Authorizer:J. Sepkoski, P. Wagner Enterer:M. Sommers, P. Wagner
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1998-11-20 10:07:18 Last modified:2017-01-26 19:31:01
Access level:the public Released:1998-11-20 10:07:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
16656. A. B. Shaw. 1962. Paleontology of northwestern Vermont. IX. Fauna of the Monkton Quartzite. Journal of Paleontology 36(2):322-345 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]