North side of Taylor Peak, 4 miles south of Ashcraft (Cambrian of the United States)
Where: Colorado (39.0° N, 106.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.3° S, 88.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sawatch Formation, Franconian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. B. Knight. 1948. Further new Cambrian bellerophont gastropods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 111(3):1-6 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 56818: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.11.2005
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Taxonomic list
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| Gastropoda | |
Strepsodiscus major n. gen. n. sp.
Strepsodiscus major n. gen. n. sp. Knight 1948 snail | |