ammonites
LEC X 160-170, Deadwood Form., Black Hills, South Dakota - Stitt and Straatmann (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Meade County, South Dakota (44.3° N, 103.5° W: paleocoordinates 11.8° S, 83.0° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Taenicephalus zone, Deadwood Formation, Franconian (501.0 - 488.3 Ma)

• Collection numbers represent exact footage above the base of the section. The X in the collection name indicates that the sample was not collected in situ but had not moved very far, and the footage given is approximate.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, green shale and lithified limestone

• The Black Hills is a domal basement uplift formed during the Laramide Orogeny.
• interbedded sequence of green fissile shale and intraclastic limestone.

Collection methods: Collected by Christina Lochman-Balk and her students. Only trilobites and brachiopods are included in the collection.

Primary reference: J. H. Stitt and W. M. Straatmann. 1997. Trilobites from the upper part of the Deadwood Formation (Upper Franconian and Trempealeauan stages, Upper Cambrain), Black Hills, SOuth Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 71(1):86-102 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9726: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 18.01.2001