Hintze faunule J-15 from Ibex: Blackhillsian, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Pseudocybele nasuta Ross 1951
common category
Cybelopsis cf. speciosa
rare category
    = Cybelopsis speciosa
Dean 1989
Pseudomera cf. insolita (Poulsen 1927)
common category
Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae
Goniotelus sp. Ulrich 1927
common category
Trilobita - Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Dimeropygiella caudanodosa Ross 1951
common category
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Lesueurillidae
? Lesueurilla sp. Koken 1898
common category
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 Ordovician
Stage: Floian 10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 2
Key time interval: Blackhillsian
Age range of interval: 473.9 - 470 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Pogonip Formation:Wah Wah
Local section:Section J of Hintze Local bed:118 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Calcisilite, thin bedded, low ledge and slope forming.
Environment:deep subtidal ramp
Geology comments: Multiple sources indicate that this was a carbonate dominated ramp, with substantial siliciclastic input, below normal wave base, above storm wave base.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:original silica,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:63931
Authorizer:A. Miller, M. Hopkins Enterer:A. Miller, M. Hopkins
Modifier:A. Miller Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-08-25 09:10:25 Last modified:2006-08-25 12:15:37
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-25 09:10:25
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]