92 m height of section BHL1, Cape Phillips Fm., Baillie-Hamilton Island, Northwe (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (75.1° N, 94.0° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° N, 32.3° W)

When: perneri-opimus (Graptolite) zone, Cape Phillips Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: slope; calcareous carbonate and shale

• "A series of carbonate debris flows [into basinal shales] derived from the platform margin is preserved in this area. It is from these gravity flow deposits that silicified fossils have been recovered."

Primary reference: J. M. Adrain and G. D. Edgecombe. 1997. Silurian (Wenlock) Calymenid trilobites from the Cape Phillips Formation, central Canadian Arctic. Journal of Paleontology 71(4):657-682 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 684: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 23.02.1999

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Taxonomic list

• Calymenid trilobites only; article states there is a rich graptolite fauna as well.
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Trilobita
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Taemasaspis sp., Kettneraspis wrightae, Edgecombeaspis johansonae, Radiaspis sp.
Taemasaspis sp. Chatterton 1971 trilobite
new species 1
Kettneraspis wrightae Adrain and Ramskold 1997 trilobite
new species - originally entered as "Ketneraspis wrightae"
Edgecombeaspis johansonae trilobite
new species
Radiaspis sp. Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite
species 1
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Arcticalymene rotteni, Arcticalymene viciousi