Section U6: C7560-7652 (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Yukon, Canada (64.6° N, 130.0° W: paleocoordinates 3.5° N, 62.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kathleenella subula trilobite zone, Rabbitkettle Formation, Trempealeauan (492.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC, MCZ, USNM, YPM

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: S. R. Westrop. 1995. Sunwaptan and Ibexian (Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician) trilobites of the Rabbitkettle Formation, Mountain River region, northern Mackenzie Mountains, northwest Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 12:1-75 [S. Peters/S. Peters/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55285: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 05.10.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
"Litagnostus planulatus" = Pseudagnostus planulatus
"Litagnostus planulatus" = Pseudagnostus planulatus Raymond 1924
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Trilobita
 Harpetida - Heterocaryonidae
Bowmania americana Walcott 1884 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Phylacteridae
 Ptychopariida - Catillicephalidae
 Asaphida - Dikelocephalidae
 Asaphida - Ptychaspididae
 Asaphida - Eurekiidae
Eurekia sp. Walcott 1924 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Elkanaspis futile Ludvigsen 1982 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
 Corynexochida - Illaenuridae