HOUSE RANGE, MILLARD CO., UTAH
Bathyocos housensis
Bolaspidella housensis
Brachyaspidion
sulcatum
Elrathia kingii (or kingi)
Elrathina wheeleri = Ptychoparella wheeleri
Olenoides expansus
Olenoides nevadensis
Onymagnostus
seminula
Peronopsis amplaxis
Peronopsis bidens
Peronopsis fallax
Peronopsis gaspensis
Peronopsis intermedius
Peronopsis interstrictus = Itagnostus interstrictus
Peronopsis montis
Ptychagnostus gibbus
Ptychagnostus germanus
Ptychagnostus occultatus
Ptychagnostus
seminula
Ptychoparella wheeleri
Zacanthoides sp.
DRUM
MOUNTAINS, MILLARD CO., UTAH
Altiocculus sp
Bathyuriscus sp.
Bolaspidella sp
Elrathia sp
Glyphaspis
concavus
Modecia sp
Olenoides expansus
Olenoides
serratus
Peronopsis amplaxis
Peronopsis fallax
Peronopsis gaspensis
Peronopsis montis
Ptychagnostus atavus
Ptychagnostus gibbus
Ptychagnostus intermedius
Ptychagnostus
seminula
Ptychoparella sp.
Spencella sp.
Tonkinella
breviceps
Zacanthoides
divergens
Zacanthoides sp.
Choia
sp sponge
Gogia spiralis Eocrinoid
Margaretia
dorus sponge
Branchiocaris Phyllocarid
The Drum Mountains portion of the Wheeler are shallow facies and is equivalent to the Pierson Cove Formation. The Elrathia in the Drums are for the most part Elrathia marjumi, although some appear to be an intermediate species between Elrathia marjumi and Elrathia kingii. There is much debate on where the boundary between the Pierson Cove and the Wheeler Formation actually is.
References:
Allison,
P.A.; Brett, C.E.; Liddell, W.D.; Wright, E.; 1995.
Repetitive
tapho, bio- and litho facies, within the Middle Cambrian Swazey
Limestone-Wheeler
Shale transition of Utah. Geological Society of America,
Abstracts with Programs 27(6):374
Babcock, L. E., Rees, M. N., Robison, R. A., Langenburg, E. S., and Peng, S. (2004) Potential Global Standard Stratotype-section and Point (GSSP) for a Cambrian stage boundary defined by the first appearance of the trilobite Ptychagnostus atavus, Drum Mountains, Utah, USA. Geobios 37, pp. 149-158
Gaines,
Robert R.; 2000.
Ichnofabric,
taphonomy and soft-bodied preservation in the Middle Cambrian
Wheeler
Shale, Millard County, Utah. PaleoBios 20(Suppl.1):1-3 le
Gaines,
Robert R.; Droser, Mary L.; Kennedy, Martin J.; 2001.
A
diagenetic trigger of exceptional preservation in the Wheeler Shale
(Middle
Cambrian, Utah). PaleoBios 21(Suppl.1):1-4 S
Gaines,
Robert R.; Droser, Mary L.; Kennedy, Martin J.; 2001.
Taphonomy
of soft-bodied preservation and ptychopariid Lagerstätte in the
Wheeler
Shale (Middle Cambrian), House Range, USA; controls and
implications.
PaleoBios, 21(Suppl.2):1:55
Rigby,
J. Keith; Gunther, Lloyd F.; Gunther, Val G.; 1983.
Quarries
for Middle Cambrian fossils in the Wheeler and Marjum formations
of
western Utah. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs
15(5):408
Robison,
Richard Ashby; 1962.
Late
Middle Cambrian Faunas from the Wheeler and Marjum Formations of
Western
Utah. PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin
Robison,
Richard Ashby; 1971.
Additional
Middle Cambrian Trilobites From the Wheeler Shale of Utah.
Journal
of Paleontology 45(5):796-804
Rogers,
J.C.; 1984.
Depositional
environments and paleoecology of two quarry sites in the
Middle
Cambrian Marjum and Wheeler Formations, House Range, Utah. Brigham
Young
University Geology studies 31, 97-115.
Schneider,
Loren P.; 2000.
The
sequence stratigraphy of the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Formation in the
Drum
Mountains of west central Utah. Monograph.
Sundberg,
Frederick A.; 1994.
Corynexochida
and Ptychopariida (Trilobita,Arthropoda) of the Ehmaniella
Biozone
(Middle Cambrian), Utah and Nevada. Natural History Museum of
Los
Angeles County - Contributions in Science, No.446
White,
William W. III; 1973.
Depositional
environments of Wheeler Formation, Drum Mountains, Millard
County, Utah. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 57(5)
Also see: Fossils of the House Range in Utah
*researched and compiled by James Cook, Andrew Milner and Kevin D. Brett
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