Where: Nunavut, Canada (75.4° N, 95.8° W: paleocoordinates 3.5° N, 33.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cape Phillips Formation, Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)
• Age calls by authors based on interfingering beds with rich graptolite fauna (see PBDB ref. 7197).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; packstone and wackestone
•SEP environmental call based on given info and regional context
Preservation: replaced with silica
Primary reference: J. M. Adrain and L. Ramskold. 1996. The lichid trilobite Radiolichas in the Silurian of Arctic Canada and Gotland, Sweden. Geological Magazine 133:147-158 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 26000: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 30.09.2002, edited by Melanie Hopkins
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Radiolichas raydaviesi, ? Radiolichas ? davedaviesi, Borealarges mikulicorum, Borealarges morrisoni, Borealarges nicoae n. sp., Borealarges warholi n. sp.
Radiolichas raydaviesi Adrain and Ramskold 1996 trilobite
? Radiolichas ? davedaviesi Adrain and Ramskold 1996 trilobite
Borealarges mikulicorum Perry and Chatterton 1977 trilobite
Borealarges morrisoni Adrain 1994 trilobite
Borealarges nicoae n. sp. Adrain 2003 trilobite
Borealarges warholi n. sp. Adrain 2003 trilobite |