Collection 90665 (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Yukon Territory, Canada (65.1° N, 134.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 47.0° N, 107.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Bonnia-Olenellus trilobite zone, Unit 5 Member (Illtyd Formation), Dyeran (515.3 - 509.7 Ma)

• Bonnia-Olenellus is Dyeran

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray dolomite and unlithified, gray limestone

• Resistant, light grey carbonate buildups, limestone partially altered to dolomite, Thick to think wavy beds

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

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

• Trilobites only, collection 90665, 561.7m from the base of the Illtyd formation

Primary reference: W. H. Fritz. 1991. Lower Cambrian Trilobites from the Illtyd Formation, Wernecke Mountains, Yukon Territory. In N.C. Ollerenshaw, L. Reynolds (eds.), Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 409 [M. Hopkins/S. Mahmood]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156222: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 12.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
  - Antagmidae
Antagmus ducketti
Antagmus ducketti Fritz 1991 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Bonnia columbensis
Bonnia columbensis Resser 1936 trilobite