Loc. 87890, Cinnamon Peak-Whitehorn Mtn. Section: Dyeran, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita
- Redlichiida
- Olenellidae
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Olenellus truemani
Walcott 1913
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2 specimens | |||||||||
2 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: | 514.8 - 511 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Mural | ||||
Local section: | Cinnamon Peak-Whitehorn Mountain | Local bed: | 175.3 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). |
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: | 10863 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | P. Borkow |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2001-06-28 13:36:39 | Last modified: | 2010-05-26 20:48:18 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-06-28 13:36:39 |
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] |