Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.9° N, 115.6° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° S, 80.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Plagiura - Poliella trilobite zone, Mt. Whyte Formation, Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite

Collected by James Sprinkle in 1968; reposited in the MCZ, NYSM, USNM

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Sprinkle collected additional material.

Primary reference: C. D. Walcott. 1917. Cambrian geology and paleontology, 3, fauna of the Mount Whyte Formation. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 67(3):61-114 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225278: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.05.2022

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