EC-1, Emigration Canyon, Lead Bell Shale [= Spence Shale]: Delamaran, Idaho
collected by James Sprinkle 1967, 1968
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Ctenocystoidea
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Ctenocystoidea indet.
Robison and Sprinkle 1969
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Eocrinoidea
- Gogiida
- Eocrinidae
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Gogia palmeri
Sprinkle 1973
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311 specimens | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Idaho | County: | Bear Lake |
| Coordinates: | 42.4° North, 111.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.1° North, 128.8° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 3 | ||
| Key time interval: | Delamaran | Trilobite zone: | Glossopleura to Bathyuriscus-Elrathina |
| Age range of interval: | 511 - 506.5 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Langston | Member: | Lead Bell Shale | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: a small quarry of 2 ft x 8 ft of sandy shale. Lead Bell Shale is lateral equivalent of Spence Shale. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified sandy "shale" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Environment: | marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression,recrystallized,original calcite,replaced with calcite |
| Lagerst�tten type: | conservation |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection,survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | MCZ,USNM | ||
| Collectors: | James Sprinkle | Collection dates: | 1967, 1968 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 90621 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Lin | Enterer: | A. Lin |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-08-11 09:10:06 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-08-11 09:10:06 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 22459. | J. Sprinkle. 1973. Morphology and evolution of blastozoan echinoderms. Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, Special Publication 1-283 [G. Webster/G. Webster/P. Wagner] |