Also known as Mount Robson, Mount Lynx, Robson Park
Where: British Columbia, Canada (53.1° N, 119.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 71.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Leiostegium-Kainella trilobite zone, Chushina Formation, Stairsian (485.4 - 478.6 Ma)
• "Leiostegium zone" (p. 61); "Cushina formation" (explanation of plate 15). The species Robsonoceras robsonense occuring at this locality is listed among taxa of Gasconadian age.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, replaced with calcite
Primary reference: C. D. Walcott. 1924. Cambrian and Ozarkian Brachiopoda, Ozarkian Cephalopods and Notostraca. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 67:477-554 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 88872: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 23.04.2009, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"? Endoceras monsensis" = Walcottoceras monsense, "Ellesmeroceras robsonensis n. sp." = Robsonoceras robsonense
"? Endoceras monsensis" = Walcottoceras monsense Walcott 1924 |