Where: Manitoba, Canada (58.8° N, 94.1° W: paleocoordinates 7.1° S, 50.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Churchill River Group, Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)
• Late Katian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified dolomite
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: Repository: Manitoba Museum
Primary reference: D. M. Rudkin, G. A. Young, and G. S. Nowlan. 2008. The oldest horseshoe crab: a new xiphosurid from Late Ordovician Konservat-Lagerstätten deposits, Manitoba, Canada. Palaeontology 51:1-9 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 216761: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.12.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Xiphosura | |
Lunataspis aurora n. gen. n. sp.
Lunataspis aurora n. gen. n. sp. Rudkin et al. 2008 |