Kootenay National Park, Stanley Glacier (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (51.5° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 3.3° S, 79.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pagetia walcotti trilobite zone, Waputik Member (Stephen Formation), Marjumian (504.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• PJW: Pagetia walcotti subzone of Bathyuriscus-Elrathia

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. Legg. 2013. Multi-segmented arthropods from the Middle Cambrian of British Columbia(Canada). Journal of Paleontology 87(3):493-501 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146294: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 20.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Megacheira
  - Kootenichelidae