Clelandia albertensis Fauna ( of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (51.5° N, 116.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° S, 73.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: basal silty Member (Survey Peak Formation), Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• Base of Survey Peak Fm. in Basal Silty Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, calcareous shale and lithified, stromatolitic, intraclastic limestone

• Basal silty member consists of 40 to 50 m of calcareous shales with interbedded intrarudites, calcarenites, and clacisiltites; a few algal buildups are present in lower portion

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. R. Westrop. 1986. Trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Sunwaptan Stage, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta. Palaeontographica Canadiana 3:1-179 [S. Peters/S. Peters/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 54122: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 23.09.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
Jujuyaspis borealis
Jujuyaspis borealis Kobayashi 1955 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Symphysurina eugenia
 Ptychopariida - Kingstoniidae
Clelandia albertensis, Clelandia texana
Clelandia texana trilobite