dip slope south of Fossil Gully Fault, Mount Field: Delamaran, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Hamptoniidae
Hamptonia bowerbanki Walcott 1920
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Piraniidae
Pirania muricata Walcott 1920
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Leptomitidae
Leptomitella incepta n. sp. Rigby and Collins 2004
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 51.4° North, 116.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.7° South, 80.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cambrian
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 3
Key time interval: Delamaran Trilobite zone:  Glossopleura
Age range of interval: 511 - 506.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Burgess Shale Member:Kicking Horse Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Polypleuraspis subzone, basal member of the Burgess Shale
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Environment:deep-water indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:121956
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-12-12 20:58:22 Last modified:2011-12-12 03:58:22
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-12-12 20:58:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
38794. J. K. Rigby and D. Collins. 2004. Sponges of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and Stephen Formations, British Columbia. Royal Ontario Museum Contributions in Science 1:1-155 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]