Mt. Kitchner (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (52.2° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.8° S, 78.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Bathyuriscus-Elrathina trilobite zone, Stephen Formation, Marjumian (504.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• Actually equivalent to the Stephen formation rather than that formation

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, yellow shale and gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, recrystallized, original calcite, replaced with calcite

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), chemical, mechanical

Primary reference: R. A. Robison. 1965. Middle Cambrian Eocrinoids from Western North America. Journal of Paleontology 39(3):355-364 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 208938: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.04.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Eocrinoidea
 Gogiida - Eocrinidae
Gogia prolifica Walcott 1917