GSC locality 92318, Outram Fm., Biozone J, Alberta, Canada - Dean 1989: Tremadoc, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Presbynileus latifrons Dean 1989
Lachnostoma latucelsum Ross 1951
Isoteloides saxosimontis Dean 1989
see common names

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
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Early/Lower Ordovician
Stage:Tremadocian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 1
*Period:Early/Lower Ordovician *Epoch:Tremadoc
Key time interval:Tremadoc Zone: J
Age range of interval:485.40000 - 477.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Outram Local bed:214.8m 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.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Lithology description: nodular shale
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Articulated whole bodies:none
Disassociated major elements:all
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:10927
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:P. Borkow
Modifier:C. Visaggi Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2001-07-05 13:44:08 Last modified:2004-03-11 16:25:04
Access level:the public Released:2001-07-05 13:44:08
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]