Mount Fitzwilliam (Ediacaran of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (52.8° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.9° S, 103.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Miette Group, Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• The locality is stratigraphically about 330m below the unconformably overlying McNaughton Formation (Gog Group) of probable Cambrian age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, green siltstone

• Thinly laminated, green siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: H. J. Hofmann, E. W. Mountjoy, and M. W. Teitz. 1985. Ediacaran fossils from the Miette Group, Rocky Mountains, British Columbia, Cananda. Geology 13:819-821 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10534: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 21.05.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Medusae
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Irridinitus sp. Fedonkin 1983
Aspidella terranovica
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"Cyclomedusa ? davidi" = Aspidella terranovica
"Cyclomedusa ? davidi" = Aspidella terranovica Billings 1872
12 ellipses with bipartite organization
Protodipleurosoma
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