North of Fossil Gully Fault, Mount Stephen: Delamaran, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida - Reticulosa - Protospongiidae
Protospongia hicksi Hinde 1887
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Choiidae
Choia carteri Walcott 1920
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Piraniidae
Pirania muricata Walcott 1920
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Halichondritidae
? Halichondrites sp. Walcott 1920
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Hazeliidae
Falospongia ramosa n. sp. Rigby and Collins 2004
Hazelia palmata Walcott 1920
Demospongiae - Vauxiidae
Vauxia gracilenta Walcott 1920
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:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cambrian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 3
Key time interval:Delamaran
Age range of interval:511.00000 - 506.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Burgess Shale
Stratigraphic resolution: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:121960
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-12-12 23:25:52 Last modified:2011-12-12 06:25:52
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-12-12 23:25:51
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]