Mackenzie Mountains, section 24b, bioherm 2 (Cambrian of Canada)

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

• archaeocyath-microbial bioherm

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
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Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Metacyathidae
"Metacyathus caribouensis" = Metaldetes
"Metacyathus caribouensis" = Metaldetes archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Claruscoscinidae
Claruscoscinus fritzi archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
Archaeocyathus arborensis Okulitch 1954 archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
"Dictyocoscinus ketzaensis" = Archaeopharetra
"Dictyocoscinus ketzaensis" = Archaeopharetra archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ethmocyathidae
Mackenziecyathus bukryi archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ethmophyllidae
Cordilleracyathus blussoni Handfield 1971 archaeocyath sponge