GSC locality 92300, Outram Fm., Biozone J, Alberta, Canada - Dean 1989: Tremadoc, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 52.9° North, 118.1° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.4° South, 71.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian-Ordovician | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Ordovician | *Epoch: | Tremadoc |
| Key time interval: | Tremadoc | Zone: | J |
| Age range of interval: | 485.00000 - 477.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Outram | Local bed: | 230.7m above base of formation | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The deposits comprise detrital belts near the margin of Laurentia. Part of the Ordovician Ibex Series. This locality is at the same stratigraphic level as 92299. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: nodular limestone | |
| Environment: | slope |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | GSC |
| Collection method comments: Brachiopods are mentioned to occur in the formation, but their placement and lower taxa names are not given. An index of A to M is used to designate Ordovician biozones (Ross, 1949, 1951a, p.27-29) for the Wilcox Pass Area. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 10922 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | P. Borkow |
| Modifier: | C. Visaggi | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-07-05 13:21:18 | Last modified: | 2004-03-11 16:25:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-07-05 13:21:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4045. | W. T. Dean. 1989. Trilobites from the Survey Peak, Outram and Skoki Formations (Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician) at Wilcox Pass, Jasper National Park, Alberta). Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin (389)1-141 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Borkow] |