Wilcox Peak, section W, 275.4 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: Mistaya Formation, Sunwaptan (493.5 - 487.5 Ma)

• Saukia zone, Proricephalus wilcoxensis subzone, Plethopeltis-catillicephalid biofacies

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• stromatolite 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 81297: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.06.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Harpetida - Entomaspididae
"Heterocaryon vargum" = Notchpeakia varga
"Heterocaryon vargum" = Notchpeakia varga Westrop 1986 trilobite
 Harpetida - Heterocaryonidae
 Asaphida - Dikelocephalidae
 Asaphida - Ptychaspididae
 Ptychopariida - Catillicephalidae
Theodenisia "sp. A" Clark 1948 trilobite
Acheilops montis trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Plethopeltidae
"Plethometopus cf. longispinus" = Plethopeltis, "Plethometopus cf. modestus" = Plethopeltis, Leiocoryphe platycephala
"Plethometopus cf. longispinus" = Plethopeltis trilobite
"Plethometopus cf. modestus" = Plethopeltis trilobite