Where: Franklin County, Vermont (44.9° N, 73.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° S, 72.9° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eoconodontus zone, Gorge Formation, Merioneth (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• 15 meter intervals of thin-bedded limestone/shale rhythmites alternationg with thick bedded limestone conglomerates. Very little infaunal activity.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified limestone and shale

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: bulk,

• A rock pile 20-30 meters wide seperates Section A from Section B

Primary reference: J. F. Taylor and D. J. Kennedy. 1991. Uppermost Cambrian slope deposits at Highgate Gorge, Vermont: a minor miscorrelation with major consequences for conodont - and trilobite - based chronocorrelation. Journal of Paleontology 65(5):855-863 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6871: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 03.04.2000

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