Hintze faunule J-8 from Ibex: Blackhillsian, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Raphistomina sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Hintze 1951 c category
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida
? Bellerophon sp. de Montfort 1808
Hintze 1951 r category
steinkerns
    = Bellerophontina indet. Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Wagner 2023
Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Oncoceratidae
Catoraphiceras sp. (Hyatt 1884)
Hintze 1951 r category
original and current combination Zittelloceras
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Finkelnburgiidae
Diparelasma sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Hintze 1951 r category
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Hesperonomiidae
Hesperonomia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Hintze 1951 c category
Strophomenata - Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Tritoechia sinuata Ulrich and Cooper 1938
Hintze 1951 r category
unclassified
? Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Hintze 1951 c category
Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae
Benthamaspis diminutiva Hintze 1953
c category
Goniotelus brighti Hintze 1953
a category
recombined as Acidiphorus brighti
Goniotelus brevus Hintze 1953
c category
recombined as Goniotelina brevis
Trilobita - Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Dimeropygiella caudanodosa Ross 1951
a category
Trilobita - Proetida - Telephinidae
Carolinites genacinaca Ross 1951
c category
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Pseudocybele nasuta Ross 1951
Hintze 1951 a category
Cybelopsis cf. speciosa
c category
    = Cybelopsis speciosa
Dean 1989
Pseudomera cf. insolita (Poulsen 1927)
Hintze 1951 r category
Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
? Kawina sexapugia Ross 1951
r category
recombined as Forteyops sexapugia
Trilobita - Asaphida - Nileidae
? Barrandia sp. M'Coy 1849
r category
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Paranileus aff. utahensis Hintze 1953
Hintze 1951 r category
recombined as Presbynileus utahensis
Isoteloides polaris Poulsen 1927
r category
? Lachnostoma sp. Ross 1951
Hintze 1951 r category
a hypostome
Lachnostoma latucelsum Ross 1951
Hintze 1951 a category
Kirkella declivita (Ross 1951)
Hintze 1951 c category
    = Ptyocephalus declivita Ross 1951
Finnegan and Droser 2008
misspelling Kirkella declevita
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah
Coordinates: 38.9° North, 113.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.4° South, 83.0° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Early/Lower Ordovician
Stage:Floian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2
Key time interval:Blackhillsian
Age range of interval:473.90000 - 470.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Pogonip Formation:Wah Wah
Local section:Section J of Hintze Local bed:38 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified grainstone
Secondary lithology:flat-pebble lithified conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Calcisiltite, medium gray, thin bedded, intraformational conglomerate in thin beds, very fossiliferous.
Environment:deep subtidal ramp
Geology comments: Multiple sources indicate that this was a carbonate dominated ramp, with substauntial siliciclastic input, below normal wave base, above storm wave base.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:replaced with silica
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,some microfossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:The faunal lists in Hintze 1952 are updated versions of those in Hintze 1951 and, so, are used here.
Metadata
Database number:63846
Authorizer:A. Miller, S. Finnegan, P. Wagner, M. Hopkins Enterer:A. Miller, S. Finnegan, P. Wagner, M. Hopkins
Modifier:A. Miller Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-08-22 12:47:12 Last modified:2006-08-23 16:30:46
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-22 12:47:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18329. L. F. Hintze. 1953. Lower Ordovician trilobites from western Utah and eastern Nevadea. Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey Bulletin 48:249 p. [A. Miller/A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]

Secondary references:

4045 W. T. Dean. 1989. Trilobites from the Survey Peak, Outram and Skoki Formations (Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician) at Wilcox Pass, Jasper National Park, Alberta). Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin (389)1-141 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Borkow]
26279 S. Finnegan and M.L. Droser. 2008. Reworking diversity: effects of storm deposition on evenness and sampled richness, Ordovician of the Basin and Range, Utah and Nevada. Palaios 23(2):87-96 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan]
18349 L.F. Hintze. 1951. Lower Ordovician detailed stratigraphic sections for western Utah. Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey Bulletin 39:99 p. [A. Miller/A. Miller]
9042 P. J. Wagner. 2023. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023). [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]