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: Noelaspis bilobata trilobite zone, Rabbitkettle Formation, Franconian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray lime mudstone
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 55302: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 06.10.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Trilobita | |
|
Calymenidius acutus trilobite | |
|
Minkella cf. americana trilobite | |
|
Wilbernia sp. Walcott 1924 trilobite | |
|
Noelaspis bilobata Ludvigsen et al. 1989 trilobite | |
|
Bellaspidella sp. Rasetti 1945 trilobite | |
| Artiopoda | |
|
Pseudagnostus pseudocyclopyge Ivshin 1956 | |