BHH (talus collection), Cape Phillips Fm., Baillie-Hamilton Island, Northwest Te (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."
Collection methods: This collection was made from talus.
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 685: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 23.02.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Calymenid trilobites only; article states there is a rich graptolite fauna as well.
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Taemasaspis sp., Kettneraspis wrightae, Edgecombeaspis johansonae, Radiaspis sp., Ceratocephala sp., Laethoprusia sp.
Kettneraspis wrightae Adrain and Ramskold 1997 trilobite new species - originally entered as "Ketneraspis wrightae"
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Arcticalymene rotteni trilobite
Arcticalymene viciousi trilobite |