Sekwi Formation - collection 73059 (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (63.5° N, 128.7° W: paleocoordinates 7.7° S, 71.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Bonnia-Olenellus trilobite zone, Sekwi Formation, Early/Lower Cambrian (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, gray, blue limestone

• Thin, wavy bedded, light blue-grey weathering limestone, finely crystaline and medium grey on fresh surfaces

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by W. H. Fritz; reposited in the GSC

• Trilobites only;collection 73059, 1822 ft above base of formation

Primary reference: W. H. Fritz. 1972. Lower Cambrian trilobites from the Sekwi Formation type section, northwestern Canada. In M. Rafuse (ed.), Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 212 [M. Hopkins/S. Mahmood/S. Mahmood]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156187: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 12.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

• colelction 73060 was at the same elevation containing Olenellus paraculus
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Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellus paraculus
 Redlichiida - Wanneriidae
Wanneria sp.
Wanneria sp. Walcott 1910 trilobite