USGS 4296-CO. Yukon River (Cambrian to of the United States)

Where: Alaska (65.0° N, 141.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.9° N, 70.1° W)

When: Poliellina - Serrodiscus trilobite zone, Adams Argillite Formation, Botomian to Botomian (516.0 - 510.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale

• Argillite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A.R. Palmer. 1968. Cambrian trilobites of East-Central Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 559(B) [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225080: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.04.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Metadoxididae
Churkinia yukonensis n. gen. n. sp.
Churkinia yukonensis n. gen. n. sp. trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dinesidae
 Corynexochida - Edelsteinaspididae
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Yukoniidae
Yukonia intermedia, "Neocobboldia spinosa" = Alaskadiscus spinosus
"Neocobboldia spinosa" = Alaskadiscus spinosus Palmer 1968