Mt. Field Section, bed W7g (Cambrian of Canada)
Where: British Columbia, Canada (51.5° N, 116.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.3° S, 79.4° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mt. Whyte Formation, Solvan (510.2 - 504.5 Ma)
• Plagiura - Kochaspis zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, black, gray limestone
• Limestone: finely crystalline, hard, black-gray, in beds 1-3 inches thinck; top portin irreguluarly dolomitized.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. Rasetti. 1957. Additional fossils from the Middle Cambrian Mt. Whyte Formation of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Journal of Paleontology 31(5):955-972 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 56722: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 23.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Trilobita | |
"Caborcella rara" = Nyella rara
"Caborcella rara" = Nyella rara Rasetti 1951 trilobite | |
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Fieldaspis superba Rasetti 1951 trilobite | |
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Onchocephalus depressus trilobite
Onchocephalus sublaevis trilobite | |