59f - Mill Creek (=Liberty Creek), west of Liberty, Bear River Range (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Bear Lake County, Idaho (42.3° N, 111.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 31.3° N, 127.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Langston Formation, Menevian (504.5 - 499.5 Ma)

• Ptarmigania zone; given as “Langston.” Would be in Sundberg's new Topazan stage.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, yellow limestone

• Somewhat impure crystalline limestone with yellowish specks

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. E. Resser. 1939. The Ptarmigania strata of the northwestern Wasatch Mountains. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 98(24):1-72 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 50218: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 10.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

Helcionelloida
 Helcionellida - Rugaeconidae
"Helcionella burlingi n. sp." = Dorispira burlingi
"Helcionella burlingi n. sp." = Dorispira burlingi Resser 1939