Section CC Upper: CC382-385 (Ordovician of Canada)

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
 Corynexochida - Illaenuridae
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
 Asaphida - Eurekiidae
Eurekia cf. apopsis Winston and Nicholls 1967 trilobite
 Asaphida - Ptychaspididae
 Asaphida - Dikelocephalidae
 Ptychopariida - Catillicephalidae
 Ptychopariida - Kingstoniidae
 Trinucleida - Alsataspididae