District of Mackenzie, Near Hart River, Ogilvie Mountains (Ordovician of Canada)

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

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Leiostegium manitouensis Walcott 1925 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Kainella flagricauda White 1874 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
cf. Parapilekia sp. Kobayashi 1934 trilobite