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
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 | |
"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
Leiocoryphe platycephala trilobite | |
Triarthropsis cf. marginata trilobite
Theodenisia "sp. A" Clark 1948 trilobite
Theodenisia "sp. B" Clark 1948 trilobite | |
Eurekia eos trilobite
"Bayfieldia" simata trilobite | |
Proricephalus wilcoxensis trilobite
Macronoda cf. prima trilobite
Idiomesus intermedius trilobite
Wilcoxaspis bulbosa trilobite | |
Calvinella tenuisculpta trilobite
Calvinella cf. procera trilobite | |
Platydiamesus cf. levisensis Rasetti 1944 trilobite
Rasettia cf. wichitaensis trilobite | |
Heterocaryon vargum trilobite |