Where: Powell County, Montana (47.5° N, 113.4° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 38.7° N, 127.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Plagiura - Poliella trilobite zone, Gordon Shale Formation, Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)
• Not specified but should be Gordon Shale.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: C. D. Walcott. 1912. Cambrian geology and paleontology 2. No. 8: The Sardinian Cambrian genus Olenopsis in America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 57(8):239-249 [S. Devincenzi/S. Devincenzi/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 225273: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.05.2022, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Ptychoparia sp. Corda 1847 trilobite | |
"Olenopsis americanus n. sp." = Kochina americana
"Olenopsis americanus n. sp." = Kochina americana Walcott 1912 trilobite | |
Bathyuriscus belesis n. sp.
Bathyuriscus belesis n. sp. Walcott 1916 trilobite | |
Vanuxemella contracta trilobite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Wimanella simplex Walcott 1908 | |
Paterinata | |
"Micromitra (Iphidella) pannula" = Dictyonina pannula
"Micromitra (Iphidella) pannula" = Dictyonina pannula White 1874 | |
Lingulata | |
Obolus (Westonia) ella Hall and Whitfield 1877 | |