87 m height of section BH2, Cape Phillips Fm., Baillie-Hamilton Island, Northwes (Silurian of Canada)
Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (74.1° N, 94.0° W: paleocoordinates 1.5° N, 32.5° W)
When: progenitor zone, Cape Phillips Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 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 L. Ramskold. 1997. Silurian Odontopleurinae (Trilobita) from the Cape Phillips Formation, Arctic Canada. Journal of Paleontology 71(2):237-261 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 693: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 23.02.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Odontopleurinae trilobites only; article implies there is a graptolite fauna as well.
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Acanthalomina arctica trilobite | |