Little Elk Creek 26, Deadwood Formation, Meade county South Dakota - Stitt 1998: Menevian, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Lingulata
- Lingulida
- Obolidae
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Dicellomus sp.
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Trilobita
- Olenida
- Cedariidae
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Cedarina dakotaensis
Stitt 1998
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Dakota | County: | Meade |
| Coordinates: | 44.3° North, 103.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.8° South, 87.0° West | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Miaolingian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 4 | ||
| *Period: | Late/Upper Cambrian | *Epoch: | Late/Upper St. David's |
| *International age/stage: | Menevian | *Local age/stage: | Marjuman stage |
| Key time interval: | Menevian | Zone: | Cedarina dakotaensis |
| Age range of interval: | 504.5 - 499.5 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Deadwood | ||
| Local section: | Little Elk Creek | Local bed: | 26 feet from base of section |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "cross stratification",pebbly,yellow sandstone |
| Lithology description: section is 104.4 m thick. pebble sandstone consists of 2.7 to 15.8 m of yellowish, medium to thick bedded medium to coarse, cross-bedded sandstone containing lenses and thin beds of quartz pebbles (up to 5 cm long) | |
| Environment: | offshore |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Collections made by Christina Lochman-Balk. The lithologic descriptions of the sections are derived from Lochman-Balk's field notes and Stitt's field reconnaissance. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Species of Arapahoia, Menomonia, Hardyoides, Welleraspis, Kormagnostus, and Kingstonia are found in the Black Hills, but their presence in measured beds is not given. Abbreviations are as follows: if three numbers (cranidia-pygidia-librigenae) for polymeroids and two numbers (cephala-pygidia) for agnostostids. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 8250 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | P. Borkow | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-07-02 17:19:05 | Last modified: | 2001-08-30 17:52:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-03-27 12:03:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 558. | J. H. Stitt. 1998. Trilobites from the Cedarina dakotaensis zone, lowermost part of the Deadwood Formation, (Marjuman Stage, Upper Cambrian), Black Hills South Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 72(6):1030-1046 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy] |