Where: Yukon Territory, Canada (65.1° N, 134.7° W: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 65.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Bonnia-Olenellus trilobite zone, Unit 5 Member (Illtyd Formation), Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)
• Bonnia-Olenellus is Dyeran
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray dolomite and unlithified, gray limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collected by W. H. Fritz; reposited in the GSC
• Trilobites only, collection 90666, 562.7m 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 156223: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 12.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Trilobita | |
Syspacephalus werneckensis n. sp.
Syspacephalus werneckensis n. sp. Fritz 1991 trilobite | |
Zacanthopsis expansa Fritz 1991 trilobite | |
Bonnia columbensis Resser 1936 trilobite |