Collection No.1, Sekwi Brook section, Mackenzie Mtns - Hofmann 1981 ( of Canada)

Where: Yukon, Canada (63.9° N, 127.8° W: paleocoordinates 63.9° N, 127.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Neoproterozoic (1000.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• Specimens from Map-unit 10b. The unit is overlain by a 150-200 m thick cliff-forming , buff weathering unit of dolostone and sandstone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified limestone

• General:dark colored shales, siltstones and minor sandstones with grey dolostone and fossil containing beds of platy dark grey limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: H. J. Hofmann. 1981. First record of Late Proterozoic faunal assemblage in the North American Cordillera. Lethaia 14:303-310 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10583: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 25.05.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Ichnofossils -
Torrowangea sp. Webby 1970
trace fossils
Gordia sp. Emmons 1844
trace fossils