Where: Yukon, Canada (64.6° N, 130.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.1° N, 60.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rabbitkettle Formation, Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)
• E. corrugata zone, Ibexian, = Eurekia apopsis zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, gray lime mudstone and 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 55315: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 07.10.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Tatonaspis kindlei trilobite | |
Elkanaspis corrugata trilobite | |
Eurekia cf. apopsis Winston and Nicholls 1967 trilobite | |
Idiomesus intermedius trilobite | |
Calvinella prethoparia trilobite | |
Yukonaspis kindlei trilobite | |
Larifugula leonensis trilobite | |
Zacompsus occidentalis trilobite |