Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (65.0° N, 137.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.1° N, 59.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)
• Leiostegium-Kainella fauna. Early Canadian.
Environment/lithology: carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Collected by L. H. Green. Collection also includes echinoderm fragments, brachiopods, and a pliomerid trilobite.
Primary reference: B. S. Norford. 1963. Reconnaissance of the Ordovician and Silurian rocks of Northern Yukon Territory. Geological Survey of Canada Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Paper 63(39):1-139 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 25754: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 24.09.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Leiostegium manitouensis Walcott 1925 trilobite | |
Kainella flagricauda White 1874 trilobite | |
cf. Parapilekia sp. Kobayashi 1934 trilobite |