Wilcox Peak, section W, 287.4-300.7 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, Plethometopus glaber subzone, Plethopeltis-catillicephalid biofacies

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• thrombolite buildup

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 81298: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.06.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Plethopeltidae
"Plethometopus glaber" = Plethopeltis, "Plethometopus sp." = Plethopeltis, "Plethometopus "sp. A"" = Plethopeltis, Leiocoryphe platycephala
"Plethometopus glaber" = Plethopeltis trilobite
"Plethometopus sp." = Plethopeltis Raymond 1913 trilobite
"Plethometopus "sp. A"" = Plethopeltis Raymond 1913 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Catillicephalidae
Theodenisia "sp. A" Clark 1948 trilobite
Theodenisia "sp. B" Clark 1948 trilobite
 Asaphida - Eurekiidae
Eurekia eos trilobite
 Asaphida - Ptychaspididae
 Asaphida - Dikelocephalidae
 Corynexochida - Illaenuridae
 Harpetida - Heterocaryonidae