Trilobite Bed, first gully north, Mount Stephen: Delamaran, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Heteractinida - Octactinellida - Eiffeliidae
Petaloptyon danei Raymond 1931
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Piraniidae
Pirania muricata Walcott 1920
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Ulospongiellidae
Ulospongiella ancyla Rigby and Collins 2004
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 51.4° North, 116.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.7° South, 80.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cambrian
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 3
Key time interval: Delamaran Trilobite zone:  Bathyuriscus-Elrathina
Age range of interval: 511 - 506.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Burgess Shale Member:Campsite Cliff Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Pagetia bootes subzone, trilobite bed
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:121958
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-12-12 21:43:30 Last modified:2011-12-12 04:43:30
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-12-12 21:43:30
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]