Also known as Reef 3762
Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (63.8° N, 128.8° W: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 67.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sekwi Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 513.0 Ma)
• lower unit 12, lower Bonnia-Olenellus zone, sample 78
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: L. G. Voronova, N. A. Drozdova, B. A. Zhegallo, A. Yu Zhuravlev, A. Yu Rozanov, T. A. Sayutina, and G. T. Ushatinskaya. 1987. Fossils from the Lower Cambrian of the MacKenzie Mountains (Canada). Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 224:1-88 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80959: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.05.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Kordephyton | |
Archaeocyatha | |
"Metacyathus caribouensis" = Metaldetes
"Metacyathus caribouensis" = Metaldetes archaeocyath sponge | |
Claruscoscinus fritzi archaeocyath sponge | |
Archaeocyathus arborensis Okulitch 1954 archaeocyath sponge | |
"Dictyocoscinus ketzaensis" = Archaeopharetra
"Dictyocoscinus ketzaensis" = Archaeopharetra archaeocyath sponge | |
Mackenziecyathus bukryi archaeocyath sponge | |
Cordilleracyathus blussoni Handfield 1971 archaeocyath sponge |