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Garden City - Upper Cherty, Franklin County, Idaho, USA
Formation | Garden City |
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Member | Upper Cherty |
Age: | 472 - 458 Ma Ordovician |
Interval | Blackhillsian |
Lithology | limestone/chert, dolomite/chert, "limestone", siltstone/"limestone", "limestone"/dolomite |
Number of Collections | 14 |
Number of Occurrences | 66 |
Recorded Sample Locations
Location | Region | Stratigraphic Name |
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Locality 5 | Franklin County, Idaho, USA | Garden City - Upper Cherty |
Associated Units
Stratigraphic Name | Age | Lithology | Occurrence Records |
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Garden City | 472 - 468 Ma Ordovician | limestone/"shale", "limestone", "limestone"/conglomerate, "limestone"/grainstone, grainstone, conglomerate/siltstone, conglomerate/"limestone", "limestone"/mudstone, "shale", "reef rocks", mudstone/packstone | 223 |
Garden City - Lower | 485 - 470 Ma Paleozoic | limestone, packstone/grainstone | 15 |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Diparelasma sp. genus | Animalia : Brachiopoda : Rhynchonellata : Orthida : Finkelnburgiidae : Diparelasma | 478.6 - 471.8 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician |
Hesperonomia sp. genus | Animalia : Brachiopoda : Rhynchonellata : Orthida : Hesperonomiidae : Hesperonomia | 478.6 - 471.8 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician |
References
Ross, Jr. R. J. (1951) Stratigraphy of the Garden City Formation in northeastern Utah, and its trilobite faunas, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 6, 1-161 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!