Wilcox Peak, section W, 107.3 m (Cambrian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 1395

Where: Alberta, Canada (52.2° N, 117.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° S, 74.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bison Creek Formation, Sunwaptan (493.5 - 487.5 Ma)

• Ellipsocephaloides zone, E. silvestris subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• thrombolite buildups

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. R. Westrop. 1986. Trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Sunwaptan Stage, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta. Palaeontographica Canadiana 3:1-179 [S. Peters/S. Peters/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81296: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.06.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ptychaspididae
Ptychaspis cf. miniscaensis Owen 1852 trilobite
  - Ellipsocephaloididae
 Olenida - Parabolinoididae