British Columbia-Alberta, St. Piran Sandstone Fm. (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (52.8° N, 119.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.9° S, 79.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Bonnia - Olenellus zone, Peyto Limestone Member (St. Piran Sandstone Formation), Cambrian (541.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• "Bonnia-Olenellus zone"

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; ooidal limestone

• "oolitic, sandly ls, thick bedded, carbonate bank, pre-orogenic geosyncline"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Rasetti. 1951. Middle Cambrian stratigraphy and faunas of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 116(5):1-277 [M. Uhen/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 186: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "F. Rasetti 1951. Middle Cambrian stratigraphy and faunas of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 116 (5) 277p."
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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Zacanthoididae
Zacanthopsis sp.
Zacanthopsis sp. Resser 1938 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Bonnia sp.
Bonnia sp. Walcott 1916 trilobite
  - Antagmidae
Crassifimbra sp., Onchocephalus sp.
Crassifimbra sp. Lochman 1947 trilobite
Onchocephalus sp. Resser 1937 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
"Syspacephalus sp." = Ptychoparella, Piaziella sp.
"Syspacephalus sp." = Ptychoparella Poulson 1927 trilobite
Piaziella sp. Lochman 1947 trilobite
originally entered as "Piazella sp."
 Redlichiida - Agraulidae
Agraulos sp.
Agraulos sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellus sp., "Paedumias sp." = Olenellus (Paedeumias)
Olenellus sp. Hall 1861 trilobite
"Paedumias sp." = Olenellus (Paedeumias) Walcott 1910 trilobite
originally entered as "Paedaumias sp."
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Eodiscidae
Pagetia sp.
Pagetia sp. Walcott 1916