Bed 1, Wasatch Range, Big Cottonwood Canyon (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Wasatch County, Utah (40.6° N, 111.7° W: paleocoordinates 6.0° S, 92.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Olenellus trilobite zone, Pioche Formation, Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• Very top of Olenellus zone (Figure 3)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; micaceous, gray, green, argillaceous shale

• absolutely nothing written of lithol. "pre-orogenic geosyncline"
• Greenis-brown micaceous arenaceous shale

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: G. B. Maxey. 1958. Lower and Middle Cambrian stratigraphy in northern Utah and southeastern Idaho. Geological Society of America Bulletin 69(6):1-647 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96497: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 09.06.2010

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Taxonomic list

• "Maxey, 1958"
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Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellus gilberti
Olenellus gilberti White 1874 trilobite
(Meek)
 Ichnofossils -
Cruziana sp.
Cruziana sp. d'Orbigny 1842