Loc. 87894, Cinnamon Peak-Whitehorn Mtn. Section: Dyeran, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellus truemani Walcott 1913
3 specimens
recombined as Fritzolenellus truemani
3 cephala
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 53.0° North, 119.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.1° South, 79.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Series 2
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 2-3
*Period:Early/Lower Cambrian - Middle Cambrian *Epoch:Caerfai
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Lenian - Middle Lenian
Key time interval:Dyeran Trilobite zone: Bonnia-Olenellus
Age range of interval:514.80000 - 511.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mural
Local section:Cinnamon Peak-Whitehorn Mountain Local bed:150.9 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Trilobites from below the upper Nevadella Zone and lower Bonnia-Olenellus boundary were found to have a restricted diversity, while those above are markedly different and exhibit diverse forms. The possible cause is a disconformity or a disconformity with an erosionally-erased biomere boundary. The boundary between the Nevadella and Bonnia-Olenellus zones is within the interval 4.1m below to 6.2m above the base of the middle mudstone member. NOTE: The Tah Formation has been renamed the Mural Formation by Burling. AGE: Waucoban; refined by A. Hendy (6/2009) on the basis of biostratigraphic data (= Bonnia-Olenellus zone). Further refined to Dyeran by zone (PJW).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Lithology and age of the sections were restudied by Fritz and Mountjoy in 1975 and additional collecting by Fritz and Mountjoy in 1971 and 1973 at Mumm Peak, Cinnamon Peak-Whitehorn Mountain, and Walcott's nearby sections are integrated into the study.
Metadata
Database number:10859
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:P. Borkow
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2001-06-28 13:31:15 Last modified:2010-05-26 20:46:30
Access level:the public Released:2001-06-28 13:31:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

4031. W. H. Fritz. 1992. Walcott's Lower Cambrian Olenellid trilobite collection 61k, Mount Robson Area, Canadian Rocky Mountains. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 432 (432)1-66 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Borkow]