Where: British Columbia, Canada (50.8° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.8° S, 73.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Iapetognathus fluctivagus conodont zone, Putty Shale Member (Survey Peak Formation), Gasconadian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)
• Symphysurina bulbosa zone, = Garden City formation A-C. Was McKay Group Unit E
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: gray, blue limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: T. Kobayashi. 1955. The Ordovician fossils from the McKay group in British Columbia, western Canada, with a note on the early Ordovician palaeogeography. Journal of the Faculty of Science, the Imperial University of Tokyo, Section 2 9(3):355-492 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 50165: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 09.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Eobucania pulchra n. gen. n. sp.
Eobucania pulchra n. gen. n. sp. Kobayashi 1955 snail | |
Trilobita | |
Symphysurina "sp. a" Ulrich 1924 trilobite
Symphysurina "sp. b" Ulrich 1924 trilobite | |
"Jujuyaspis borealis" = Jujuyaspis borealis, "Sphaerophthalmella inexpectans" = Jujuyaspis borealis, Parabolinella bisulcatus
"Jujuyaspis borealis" = Jujuyaspis borealis Kobayashi 1955 trilobite
"Sphaerophthalmella inexpectans" = Jujuyaspis borealis Kobayashi 1955 trilobite
Parabolinella bisulcatus trilobite | |
Gonioteloides monoceros trilobite |