... , Oulodus panuarensis , Panderodus unicostatus , Panderodus recurvatus , and Pseudooneotodus beckmanni were recovered from the overlying Budd Road Phosphate Bed at the base of the Reynales Limestone near Lockport, New York. The specimens from both beds are indicative of the Pranognathus tenuis Zone, which...

... known to be of mid-Llandovery and probably Aeronian age (Berry and Boucot, 1970 ). Recently, Waid and Over ( 2015 ) discovered conodonts in the lower Reynales Formation (basal Budd Road phosphate bed of LoDuca and Brett, 1994 ) from Budd Road about 2.5 km west of Hickory Corners, representing...

...BEN WAGGONER Abstract Two non-trilobite arthropods are described from the Emigrant Formation (Lower Cambrian-Lower Ordovician) in the Silver Peak Range, Esmeralda County, Nevada. A Middle or Upper Cambrian “arachnomorph” arthropod with a phosphatic exoskeleton has been noted in previous faunal...

... Amphitheater, SW¼ NW¼ sec. 24, T17S, R13W, Marjum Pass 7.5′ Quadrangle, Millard County, Utah. See Locality 716 of Robison and Richards (1981) . “Sponge Gully”: Marjum Formation; House Range, in a dry stream bed about 700–800 m east of the western road between Marjum Pass and the Wheeler Amphitheater...

... of the Priapulida (Harvey, Dong & Donoghue, 2010 ) or Cycloneuralia (Budd, 2001 ; Conway Morris & Peel, 2010 ). Complete preservation of their worm-like bodies is known, but far more often they occur as disarticulated calcium phosphate cuticular sclerites. The first palaeoscolecids, represented...

... in New York State, USA . Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs , 54 ( 4 ). doi: 10.1130/abs/2022NC-374496 . Waid , C.B. , and Over , D.J. 2016 . Aeronian (Llandovery, Silurian) conodonts from the Densmore Creek Phosphate Bed and the Budd Road Phosphate Bed, Clinton Group...

...) Block of 1.1-meter-thick “calcrete” bed at the position of RRR-7 (base) and RRR-8 (top) in the Ruby Ranch Road section ( Fig. 8 ). Note brecciated laminated fabric. White arrow points toward centimeter/inch scale bar. In the lower Poison Strip Sandstone, at the position of samples RRR-7 to RRR-8...

... and quartz sandstone; 5, quartz sandstone; 6, calcareous nodules; 7, methanogenic (sideritic) nodule; 8, bedded limestone; 9, manganese nodules (black), phosphatic clasts (red); 10, ooids and pisolites; 11, manganiferous (M), glauconite sand and clasts (G), pyritic (P); 12, lingulate brachiopods (left...

... was collected from the quarry at the junction of Lincoln Highway (U.S Route 30) and Biesecker Road (39°55.3′N, 76°51.2′W) in Thomasville, York County, Pennsylvania ( Figure 1 ). Long operated by Thomasville Stone and Lime Company, it is now owned by Oldcastle Industrial Minerals. The main quarry complex...

...) is composed of a carbonaceous marl (TOC contents between 1.2 and 23.2 wt %) with intercalated phosphate-rich laminae, lenses, and layers. Subordinate lithologies include ash layers, dolomitized horizons, and siliceous beds. We distinguished five lithological units: (1) a gray marl unit lacking major phosphate...

..., and better constrains the depositional setting of this important lower Cambrian package from the eastern Stansbury Basin, South Australia. A thin volcanic ash layer in the uppermost Heatherdale Shale on Main South Road, Fleurieu Peninsula (see Fig.  1 ; located at 35° 20’ 17.18″ S, 138° 27’ 54.55″ E...

... to phosphatic brachiopods and occasional graptolites. The specimens described here come from drillcore intervals from two wells in the west of the region, toward the border with Alberta: Ceepee Riley Lake (RL; 101/03-04-039-13W3; ∼5,391.5–5,369 feet [ = 1643.3–1636.5 m; TVD below KB]; see Harvey et al...

.... Cloudina hartmannae Germs, 1972b UCLA 7311 . Kliphoek 1 . Finer-grained beds just above prominent ledge of quartzite near top of Kliphoek Member, Dabis Formation, Kuibis Subgroup, Nama Group on Kliphoek farm, 200 m south of track running east from road P727 about 1 km north of Kliphoek homestead...

... beds of sandstone. This unit contains diverse ichnofossils as described below (Fig. 2 ). Medium-grained sandstone beds with rippled tops and phosphatic pebbles comprise the upper part of this interval. A package of impure fine sandstone with poorly developed bedding follows in the succession. Polished...

... Island, South Australia, also involved replication of tissues by iron-bearing minerals (e.g., Glaessner, 1979 ). Briggs and Nedin (1997) , however, have demonstrated that the mineralization of the soft-bodied fauna from the Emu Bay Shale involves replication of tissues by phosphatization in the case...

..., phosphatization, and skeletal and intraclastic lags. Figure 2 Sequence stratigraphy and lithostratigraphy of the Upper Ordovician of the Nashville Dome (based on Holland and Patzkowsky 1998 ). Sequences M1 through M6 lie within the Mohawkian Series and C1 through C6 lie within the Cincinnatian Series...

... and is associated with coals and paleosols. It represents nearshore environments deposited during maximum regression. Next is the middle limestone, a dense, micritic limestone recording marine inundation. This is overlain by the core shale, a black, fissile shale with inorganic phosphate nodules and a deepwater...

..., as they have not been negatively impacted by weathering or cleavage and are more commonly exposed than bed top surfaces. Finally, Lewin’s Cove is located close to a main road, but the outcrop access is dependant of tides: from low tides to high tides, rising waters can cover 5–10 m of the shoreline...

... Formation (thickness 150 m at Albert Heim Bjerge; Fig.  1 ), which is dominated by glauconite-rich sandstones and siltstones in the lower part and by shales with minor carbonate beds and nodules in the upper part. Body fossils have only been found in the upper part of the formation ( Poulsen 1932 ; Cowie...

... by the cyclic terrestrial and marine Honaker Trail Formation ( Baars et al. 1967 ). The Paradox Formation contains a nested hierarchy of beds that make up parasequences, sequences, and sequence sets ( Pray and Wray 1963 ; Goldhammer et al. 1991 ; Gianniny and Simo 1996 ) ( Fig. 2 ). Here we adopt a condensed...