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Lithistid sponges from the Late Ordovician Fish Haven Dolomite, Bear River Range, Cache County, Utah

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

J. Keith Rigby
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602
Paul Jamison
Affiliation:
551 North 100 East, Logan, Utah 84321

Abstract

The tricranoclad demosponge Hindia sphaeroidalis Duncan, 1879, is reported as a common silicified sponge in the basal dolomite of the Deep Lakes Member of the Upper Ordovician Fish Haven Formation of northeastern Utah for the first time. A small juvenile orchoclad anthaspidellid, Hudsonospongia? sp., is also the first of that family reported from Fish Haven beds and the Deep Lakes Member. Both taxa are from localities on the eastern slope of Mount Magog, north of Tony Grove Lake, in the Bear River Range, Cache County, east of Logan, Utah.

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