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: Rabbitkettle Formation, Trempealeauan (492.5 - 485.4 Ma)
• Naustia papilio zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, 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 55307: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 07.10.2005, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Artiopoda | |
Micragnostus ? insolitus Grant 1965
Lotagnostus sp. Whitehouse 1936 | |
Trilobita | |
Hungaia burlingi trilobite | |
Idiomesus levisensis Rasetti 1944 trilobite | |
"Parabriscoia cf. elegans" = Briscoia elegans
"Parabriscoia cf. elegans" = Briscoia elegans Kobayashi 1935 trilobite | |
Naustia papilio trilobite | |
Tatonaspis diorbita trilobite |