W4d, 5 m above base Ross Lake Section Unit 5. 0.2 M NE of upper end of Ross Lake (Cambrian of Canada)
Also known as Yoho National Park
Where: British Columbia, Canada (52.8° N, 119.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.9° S, 77.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Mount Whyte Formation, Solvan (513.0 - 501.0 Ma)
• Delamaran on N. American scale
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray limestone
• "135 ft. of siliceous, fissile, dark grey shale, outer detrital belt, geosynclinal (pre-orogenic) BA4?"
• dark gray crystalline limestone
Primary reference: G. Geyer. 1994. Middle Cambrian mollusks from Idaho and early conchiferan evolution. New York State Museum Bulletin 481(1):69-86 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50545: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• "C Deiss 1939. Cambrian formations of southwestern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia. GSA Bull. 50:951-1026."
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Tergomya | |
? Protoconchioides rasettii n. sp.
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