Marjum Formation


The Marjum Formation is a Cambrian geological formation that overlies the Wheeler Shale in the House Range, Utah. It is named after its type locality, Marjum Pass, and was defined in 1908. The formation is known for its occasional preservation of soft-bodied tissue, and is slightly younger than the Burgess Shale, falling in the Ptychagnostus praecurrens trilobite zone.

Fossil content

Ambulacrarians

Arthropods

Chancelloriids

Chordates

Cnidarians

Moon, Caron & Moysiuk considered these fossils would be ctenophores instead.

Ctenophores

Lophotrochozoans

Scalidophorans

Sponges