Also known as Hanburia gloriosa, Phyllopod Bed, Burgess Shale, Canada - Whittington 1998
Where: British Columbia, Canada (51.4° N, 116.5° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° S, 77.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Phyllopod Bed Member (Burgess Shale Formation), St Davids to St Davids (513.0 - 485.4 Ma)
• The stratigraphy of the Burgess Shale quarry is similar to that of the Stephen Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Specimens in collection range from 9-35 mm. Originally collected and tentatively described in 1916 by Walcott, re-examined by Whittington for comparison purposes.
Primary reference: H. B. Whittington. 1998. Hanburia gloriosa: rare trilobite from the Middle Cambrian, Stephen Formation, British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 72(4):673-677 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 6854: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 31.03.2000, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Orthrozanclus reburrus n. gen. n. sp.
Orthrozanclus reburrus n. gen. n. sp. Conway Morris and Caron 2007 |