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
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 | |
"Heterocaryon vargum" = Notchpeakia varga
"Heterocaryon vargum" = Notchpeakia varga Westrop 1986 trilobite | |
? Conococheaguea ludvigseni n. sp.
? Conococheaguea ludvigseni n. sp. trilobite | |
Saukia cf. imperatrix trilobite | |
Euptychaspis typicalis trilobite
Proricephalus wilcoxensis trilobite | |
Theodenisia "sp. A" Clark 1948 trilobite
Triarthropsis nitida trilobite
Triarthropsis cf. marginata trilobite
Acheilops montis trilobite | |
"Plethometopus cf. longispinus" = Plethopeltis, "Plethometopus cf. modestus" = Plethopeltis, Leiocoryphe platycephala
"Plethometopus cf. longispinus" = Plethopeltis trilobite
"Plethometopus cf. modestus" = Plethopeltis trilobite
Leiocoryphe platycephala trilobite |