USGS loc. D1054 CO, Mazourka Canyon, Inyo Mountains (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as SF 4

Where: Inyo County, California (37.0° N, 118.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 25.2° N, 120.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Didymograptus protobifidus graptolite zone, Al Rose Formation, Blackhillsian (474.9 - 470.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified shale

• outer shelf
• brown; sandy; interbedded w/ thin grey Ls beds

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by J. Ross, Jr.

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: R. J. Ross, Jr. and C. R. Longwell. 1964. Middle and Lower Ordovician Formations in Southernmost Nevada and Adjacent California. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1180-C:C1-C101 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104272: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Phyllograptidae
Phyllograptus anna Hall 1865 graptolite
Tetragraptus bigsbyi Hall 1865 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Pterograptidae
"Didymograptus protobifidus" = Didymograptellus protobifidus
"Didymograptus protobifidus" = Didymograptellus protobifidus Elles 1933 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
"Didymograptus artus" = Didymograptus (Didymograptus) artus
"Didymograptus artus" = Didymograptus (Didymograptus) artus Elles and Wood 1901 graptolite
Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
Cloacaspis cf. ceryx Fortey 1974 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Raphiophoridae indet. Angelin 1854 trilobite
"Ampyxinid"
 Asaphida -
Asaphida indet. Salter 1864 trilobite
"Asaphid"