Shrimp Lake 1, Pelly Mountains, subunit 1d buildup (Cambrian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 1764

Where: Yukon, Canada (61.5° N, 132.4° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° N, 75.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• subunit 1d, Nevadella zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bindstone and lithified floatstone

• quiet water below normal wave base
• 7 large buildups and at least 8 smaller ones, largest buildup 610 m wide and 90 m thick, archaeocyathid-Renalcis bindstones, floatstones and skeletal sand facies

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. C. Read. 1980. Lower Cambrian archaeocyathid buildups, Pelly Mountains, Yukon. Paper Geological Survey of Canada 78(18):1-54 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 80948: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.05.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Echinodermata indet.
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida -
Hyolithida indet.
Hyolithida indet. Mathew 1962
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet.
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Bicyathus
  -
Bicyathus sp.
Bicyathus sp. Vologdin 1939
Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
Pycnoidocyathus sekwiensis, Pycnoidocyathus uniserialis
Pycnoidocyathus sekwiensis archaeocyath sponge
Pycnoidocyathus uniserialis archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
Protopharetra sp.
Protopharetra sp. Bornemann 1884 archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Coscinocyathidae
Coscinocyathus sp.
Coscinocyathus sp. Bornemann 1884 archaeocyath sponge
 Kazachstanicyathida - Altaicyathidae
Altaicyathus sp.
Altaicyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
Ajacicyathus sp.
Ajacicyathus sp. Bedford and Bedford 1939 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ethmophyllidae
Cordilleracyathus sp.
Cordilleracyathus sp. Handfield 1971 archaeocyath sponge
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp.
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932