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 | |
"Litagnostus planulatus" = Pseudagnostus planulatus
"Litagnostus planulatus" = Pseudagnostus planulatus Raymond 1924 | |
Neoagnostus sp. Kobayashi 1955 | |
Trilobita | |
Bowmania americana Walcott 1884 trilobite | |
Phylacterus vermontanus trilobite | |
Yukonaspis kindlei trilobite | |
Calvinella prethoparia trilobite | |
Idiomesus intermedius trilobite
Kathleenella subula trilobite | |
Eurekia sp. Walcott 1924 trilobite | |
Elkanaspis futile Ludvigsen 1982 trilobite | |
Zacompsus occidentalis trilobite | |
Tatonaspis diorbita trilobite |