Section K - collection K-258 (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Yukon, Canada (63.4° N, 128.6° W: paleocoordinates 3.0° N, 63.7° 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 55234: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 30.09.2005

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Olenida - Aphelaspidae
? Olentella sp. Ivshin 1953 trilobite
 Olenida - Parabolinoididae
Parabolinoides calvilimbata Westrop 1986 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
"Pseudagnostus" "communis" Hall and Whitfield 1877
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Acmarhachis acuta Kobayashi 1938