Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.8° N, 116.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.9° S, 73.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mons Formation, Skullrockian (487.5 - 482.3 Ma)
• 1e of section in a gray limestone
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone and lithified, argillaceous shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: C. D. Walcott. 1925. Cambrian Geology and Paleontology V. No. 3. Cambrian and Ozarkian trilobites. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 75(3):64-146 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 233705: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.02.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lingulata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Eoorthis putillus" = Nanorthis putilla
"Eoorthis putillus" = Nanorthis putilla Walcott 1924 | |
Trilobita | |
Briscoia sinclairensis Walcott 1924 trilobite |