Where: Yukon, Canada (62.7° N, 128.4° W: paleocoordinates 3.1° N, 64.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rabbitkettle Formation, Dresbachian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, argillaceous, calcareous siltstone and lithified, fine-grained sandstone
Preservation: replaced with silica, replaced with phosphate
Collection methods: chemical, mechanical,
Primary reference: B.R. Pratt. 1992. Trilobites of the Marjuman and Steptoean stages (Upper Cambrian), Rabbitkettle Formation, southern Mackenzie Mountains, northwest Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana (9)1-109 [S. Peters/S. Peters/S. Peters]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 55231: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 30.09.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Tholifrons advena trilobite | |
Olenaspella regularis Palmer 1962 trilobite
Aphelaspis stenygrogenae trilobite
Labiostria conveximarginata Palmer 1954 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
"Pseudagnostus" "communis", "Sulcatagnostus securiger" = Pseudagnostus securiger
"Pseudagnostus" "communis" Hall and Whitfield 1877
"Sulcatagnostus securiger" = Pseudagnostus securiger Lake 1906 |