6.5 m height of section BH2, Cape Phillips Fm., Baillie-Hamilton Island, Northwe (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as Encrinurinae, Cape Phillips Fm, level 6.5 m, BH2 sect., Baillie-Hamilton Is.

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (75.8° N, 94.5° W: paleocoordinates 2.5° N, 31.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: lundgreni-testis graptolite zone, Cape Phillips Formation, Homerian (430.5 - 427.4 Ma)

• Age calls by authors based on interfingering beds with rich graptolite fauna.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; packstone and wackestone

• See lithology.

•SEP environmental call based on given info and regional context

• Cape Phillips Formation in general "comprised mainly of calcareous shales and argillaceous limestones." The trilobites listed in this paper occur in packstones and wackestones that are interpreted as debris flows.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: J. M. Adrain and G. D. Edgecombe. 1997. Silurian encrinurine trilobites from the central Canadian Arctic. Palaeontographica Canadiana 14:1-38 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25980: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 30.09.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Encrinurine trilobites only.
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Frammia bachae n. sp. trilobite
Mackenziurus deedeei n. sp. trilobite