Where: British Columbia, Canada (51.4° N, 116.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.7° S, 80.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Walcott Quarry Member (Burgess Shale Formation), Delamaran (513.0 - 505.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Great Phyllopod Bed of the Walcott Quarry Member, Burgess Shale Fm, Chancellor Gp, which overlies the Wash Limestone Mbr, and is overlain by the Raymond Quarry Shale Mbr. AGE: early Middle Cambrian, Delamaran North American stage. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 22 mm thick bed, 245 cm below "lower ginger layer, representing the base of the "Phyllopod Bed".
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, calcareous siltstone and lithified, cherty/siliceous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, adpression, soft parts
Reposited in the ROM
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTOR: Royal Ontario Museum staff. REPOSTORY: Royal Ontario Museum (ROM).
Primary reference: J.-B. Caron and D. A. Jackson. 2008. Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 258:222-256 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84430: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.10.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Morania | |
Morania sp. Walcott 1919 | |
unclassified | |
Algae | |
Dictyophycus gracilis Ruedemann 1931 | |
Yuknessia simplex | |
Yuknessia simplex Walcott 1919 | |
Florideophyceae | |
Wahpia sp. Walcott 1919 | |
Demospongiae | |
Hazelia sp. Walcott 1920 demosponge | |
"Halicondrites elissa" = Halichondrites
"Halicondrites elissa" = Halichondrites demosponge | |
Hamptonia bowerbanki Walcott 1920 demosponge | |
Takakkawia lineata Walcott 1920 demosponge | |
Cambrorhytium major | |
Cambrorhytium major Walcott 1908 | |
Cambrorhytium fragilis | |
Cambrorhytium fragilis Walcott 1911 | |
Coeloscleritophora | |
Chancelloria eros Walcott 1920 | |
Tergomya | |
Scenella amii Matthew 1902 | |
Wiwaxia corrugata Matthew 1899 | |
Kutorginata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Paterinata | |
Lingulata | |
Hyolitha | |
Haplophrentis carinatus Matthew 1899 | |
Ottoia prolifica Walcott 1911 | |
Selkirkia "sp. A" Walcott 1911
Selkirkia columbia Conway Morris 1977 | |
Plenocaris | |
"Odaraia alata" = Pectocaris
"Odaraia alata" = Pectocaris | |
Hanburia | |
Burgessia | |
Megacheira | |
Crustacea | |
Waptia fieldensis Walcott 1912 | |
Artiopoda | |
Naraoia compacta Walcott 1912 | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Ehmaniella burgessensis trilobite | |
Elrathina cordillerae Rominger 1887 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
"Ptychagnostus praecurrens" = Pentagnostus praecurrens
"Ptychagnostus praecurrens" = Pentagnostus praecurrens WestergÄrd 1936 | |
Hurdia sp. Walcott 1912 | |
Pterobranchia | |
Chaunograptus scandens graptolite | |
Eldonia ludwigi Walcott 1911 | |
Marrellomorpha | |
Pollingeria grandis | |
Pollingeria grandis Walcott 1911 |