Mt. Field Section 28, bed W28ef (Cambrian of Canada)
Where: British Columbia, Canada (51.5° N, 116.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.3° S, 79.4° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mt. Whyte Formation, Solvan (510.2 - 504.5 Ma)
• Plagiura - Kochaspis zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, black, gray limestone
• finely crystalline, hard, black-gray, in beds 1-3 inches thick;
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. Rasetti. 1957. Additional fossils from the Middle Cambrian Mt. Whyte Formation of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Journal of Paleontology 31(5):955-972 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 56704: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 22.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Stenothecoida | |
Stenothecoides cf. elongata Walcott 1884 | |
Tergomya | |
? Protoconchioides rasettii Geyer 1994 | |
Trilobita | |
? Kochiella gibbosa, ? Kochiella superba, "Kochaspis eiffelensis" = Kochiella eiffelensis, Poulsenia columbiensis n. sp., Plagiura cercops
? Kochiella gibbosa trilobite
? Kochiella superba trilobite
"Kochaspis eiffelensis" = Kochiella eiffelensis Rasetti 1951 trilobite
Poulsenia columbiensis n. sp. trilobite
Plagiura cercops Walcott 1917 trilobite | |
"Schistometopus convexus" = Hadrocephalites convexus
"Schistometopus convexus" = Hadrocephalites convexus Rasetti 1951 trilobite | |
"Alokistocare cleora" = Amecephalus cleora
"Alokistocare cleora" = Amecephalus cleora Walcott 1917 trilobite | |
Onchocephalus depressus trilobite
Onchocephalus skapta trilobite
Onchocephalus maior Rasetti 1951 trilobite | |
Fieldaspis superba Rasetti 1951 trilobite |