Haiduk Peak, Vermilion subunit (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (51.1° N, 116.0° W: paleocoordinates 3.5° S, 79.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bolaspidella trilobite zone, Vermilion Formation, Marjumian (504.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• informal Vermilion subunit

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified limestone and lithified shale

• limestone megaconglomerates within debris flow deposits, carbonate mud mounds, brine pool deposits

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: K. J. Johnston, P. A. Johnston, and W. G. Powell. 2009. A new, Middle Cambrian, Burgess Shale-type biota, Bolaspidella zone, Chancellor Basin, southeastern British Columbia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 277:106-126 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122071: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp.
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
 Oscillatoriales - Oscillatoriaceae
Obruchevella sp.
Obruchevella sp. Reitlinger 1948
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
? Renalcis sp.
? Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Morania fragmenta
  -
Morania fragmenta
Morania fragmenta Walcott 1919
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Olenoides decorus
 Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Hemirhodon convexifrons
Epiphyton
  - Ludloviaceae
Epiphyton sp.
Epiphyton sp. Bornemann 1886
Vendotaenia
  -
Vendotaenia sp.
Vendotaenia sp. Gnilovskaya 1971