Loc. 90577, Mumm Peak Section: Dyeran, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Laudoniidae
Olenellus truncatooculatus Fritz 1992
95 specimens
recombined as Mummaspis truncatooculatus
95 cephala
Laudonia bispinata Harrington 1956
10 specimens
10 cephala
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 53.2° North, 119.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.2° South, 79.4° 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:Mumm Peak Local bed:138.1 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 14.2m to 14.5m 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 siltstone
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:10882
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:P. Borkow
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2001-06-29 08:45:51 Last modified:2010-05-26 21:05:56
Access level:the public Released:2001-06-29 08:45:51
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]