High School Sample x34 [Deadwood Fm]: Dresbachian, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Agnostida - Agnostidae
Kormagnostus seclusus (Walcott 1884)
1 individual
Hadragnostus modestus (Lochman 1944)
2 individuals
Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Nahannagnostus nganasanious
5 individuals
Pseudagnostina douvillei (Bergeron 1899)
2 individuals
Agnostida
Agnostogonus cf. incognitus Opik 1967
16 individuals
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Kingstoniidae
Kingstonia walcotti
3 individuals
Blountia eleanora
1 individual
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Crepicephalidae
Uncaspis unca
1 individual
Crepicephalus auratus
8 individuals
Crepicephalus buttsimontanaensis
1 individual
Coosia alethes (Walcott 1916)
26 individuals
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Tricrepicephalidae
Tricrepicephalus conia
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Dakota County:Whitewood Creek in Lead
Coordinates: 44.3° North, 103.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.8° South, 82.3° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Furongian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 5
*Period:Late/Upper Cambrian *Epoch:Merioneth
*Local age/stage:Marjuman
Key time interval:Dresbachian Trilobite zone: Crepicephalus
Age range of interval:497.00000 - 485.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Deadwood Member:lower
Stratigraphy comments: AGE: Dresbachian; refined by A. Hendy (6/2009) on the basis of biostratigraphic data (= Crepicephalus zone).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Environment:shoreface
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:HS x34
Database number:7184
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Straub
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-05-10 08:37:18 Last modified:2009-06-12 01:38:28
Access level:the public Released:2000-05-10 08:37:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

450. J. H. Stitt and P. J. Perfetta. 2000. Trilobites, Biostratigraphy, and Lithostratigraphy of the Crepicephalus and Aphelaspis zones, Lower Deadwood formation (Marjuman and Steptoean Stages, Upper Cambrian), Black Hills, South Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 74(2):199-223 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Straub/P. Wagner]