meter 5, Zone 12, Thomas Range (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Utah (40.9° N, 113.9° W: paleocoordinates 7.0° S, 79.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tripodus laevis conodont zone, Wahwah Formation, Rangerian (470.0 - 470.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone and lithified dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: R. A. Fortey and M.L. Droser. 1996. Trilobites at the base of the Middle Ordovician, western United States. Journal of Paleontology 70(1):73-99 [S. Holland/S. Holland/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37466: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 15.03.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Goniotelina ensifer Fortey and Droser 1996 trilobite
 Proetida - Telephinidae
Carolinites ekphymosus Fortey 1975 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Ectenonotus progenitor Fortey and Droser 1996 trilobite