A fault-controlled trough through a carbonate platform: The Middle Cambrian House Range embayment

Hurdiid radiodontans from the middle Cambrian (Series 3) of Utah

“…The Wheeler Formation, Drumian, Cambrian Series 3, from the House Range of Utah is slightly younger than the Spence from the Wellsvile Mountains, and it too contains a diverse soft-bodied biota (Robison, 1964;Gunther and Gunther, 1981;Briggs and Robison, 1984;Rogers, 1984;Rees, 1986;Robison, 1991;Robison et al, 2015). There have been a substantial number of relatively recent sedimentological, taphonomic, and geochemical studies of the soft-bodied biota from this formation and region (e.g., Gaines andDroser, 2003, 2005;Briggs et al, 2008;Halgedahl et al, 2009;Gaines, 2014).…”

High-resolution geochemical evidence for oxic bottom waters in three Cambrian Burgess Shale-type deposits

“…The middle Cambrian (Series 3, Stage 5) Wheeler Shale of central Utah, USA is a fine-grained siliciclastic unit that was deposited within a fault-controlled trough that developed during the middle Cambrian known as the House Range Embayment (Rees, 1986). The development of the House Range embayment created two broad depositional settings: a relatively shallow carbonate shelf to the east and a deepwater trough to the west (Rees, 1986;Elrick and Snider, 2002).…”

“…The development of the House Range embayment created two broad depositional settings: a relatively shallow carbonate shelf to the east and a deepwater trough to the west (Rees, 1986;Elrick and Snider, 2002). The Wheeler Shale is preserved both in the trough and on the platform.…”

A new Cambrian arthropod, Emeraldella brutoni, from Utah

“…Hintze and Robison (1975) reviewed regional stratigraphic relationships of the formation. Rees (1986), , Gaines, Kennedy, and Droser (2005), Howley, Reese, and Jiang (2006), Babcock and others (2007), Elrick and Hinnov (2007), Brett and others (2009), Halgedahl and others (2009), and Howley and Jiang (2010), have provided more detailed information about its stratigraphy and depositional environments. One of us (S.B.C.)…”