Section AV2 063 m, Avalanche Lake (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as AV2 63 m

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (62.4° N, 127.1° W: paleocoordinates 8.3° N, 53.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pterospathodus amorphognathoides conodont zone, 3W Member (Whittaker Formation), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• 201 m above base

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified mudstone

• pale-brown, calcareous, glauconitic, shaly mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: G. D. Edgecombe and L. Ramsköld. 1996. The "Encrinurus" variolaris plexus (Trilobita, Silurian): relationships of Llandovery species. Geobios 29(2):209-233 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192920: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.04.2018

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Billevittia adraini Edgecombe and Ramsköld 1996 trilobite