District of Mackenzie, Esbataottine Mountain Bathyurus Biofacies (P-1127) (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as P 1127, GSC loc. no. C-26327

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (61.7° N, 125.9° W: paleocoordinates 5.6° N, 59.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sunblood Formation, Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: Also includes ostracods, gastropods, and bryozoans.

Primary reference: B. D. E. Chatterton and R. Ludvigsen. 1976. Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites from the South Nahanni River Area, District of Mackenzie, Canada. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 154(1-3):1-106 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25927: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 28.09.2002, edited by Melanie Hopkins

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Leperditellidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Calyptaulax sp. Cooper 1930 trilobite
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Bathyurus sp. Billings 1859 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichidae
Amphilichas sp. Raymond 1905 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942
 Pentamerida - Camerellidae
Camerella sp. Billings 1859