ammonites
B-14 (Ordovician of the United States)

Also known as SF 481

Where: Millard County, Utah (38.9° N, 113.4° W: paleocoordinates 6.5° S, 85.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: C? (zone C begins “within 10-20 feet of top of House limestone” trilobite zone, House Limestone Formation, Skullrockian (488.3 - 478.6 Ma)

• IbexianSkullrockian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified siltstone

• carbonate ramp, above wave base
• grey; calcareous

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by L.F. Hintze

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: L.F. Hintze. 1951. Lower Ordovician detailed stratigraphic sections for western Utah. Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey Bulletin 39:99 p. [A. Miller/A. Miller] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104165: authorized by Seth Finnegan, entered by Seth Finnegan on 07.02.2011, edited by Melanie Hopkins