Walcott Quarry, Fossil Ridge, Greater Phyllopod Bed: Delamaran, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Heteractinida - Octactinellida - Eiffeliidae
Petaloptyon danei Raymond 1931
Eiffelia globosa Walcott 1920
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Hazeliidae
Hazelia palmata Walcott 1920
Hazelia lobata n. sp. Rigby and Collins 2004
Hazelia nodulifera Walcott 1920
Hazelia dignata (Walcott 1920)
Hazelia luteria Rigby 1986
Hazelia delicatula Walcott 1920
Hazelia obscura Walcott 1920
Hazelia conferta Walcott 1920
Hazelia crateria Rigby 1986
? Falospongia sp. Rigby 1986
Falospongia falata Rigby 1986
Crumillospongia frondosa (Walcott 1919)
Crumillospongia biporosa Rigby 1986
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Leptomitidae
Leptomitus lineatus (Walcott 1920)
Leptomitus undulatus n. sp. Rigby and Collins 2004
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Takakkawiidae
Takakkawia lineata Walcott 1920
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Halichondritidae
Halichondrites elissa Walcott 1920
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Choiidae
Choia ridleyi Walcott 1920
Choia carteri Walcott 1920
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Hamptoniidae
Hamptonia bowerbanki Walcott 1920
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Piraniidae
Pirania muricata Walcott 1920
Moleculospina mammillata (Walcott 1920)
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Wapkiidae
Wapkia elongata Rigby and Collins 2004
Wapkia grandis Walcott 1920
Demospongiae - Anthaspidellidae
Capsospongia undulata (Walcott 1920)
Demospongiae - Vauxiidae
Vauxia densa Walcott 1920
Vauxia venata Walcott 1920
Vauxia bellula Walcott 1920
Vauxia irregulara n. sp. Rigby and Collins 2004
Vauxia gracilenta Walcott 1920
Hexactinellida - Reticulosa - Protospongiidae
Protospongia hicksi Hinde 1887
Diagoniella hindei Walcott 1920
Diagoniella cyathiformis (Dawson and Hinde 1889)
unclassified
Thaumaptilon walcotti n. gen., n. sp. Conway Morris 1993
Conway Morris 1993
Nectocarididae
Nectocaris pteryx Conway Morris 1976
Smith and Caron 2010
Enteropneusta
Spartobranchus tenuis n. gen., n. sp. Caron et al. 2013
Caron et al. 2013
unclassified
Herpetogaster collinsi n. gen., n. sp. Caron et al. 2010
Caron et al. 2010
Radiodonta - Anomalocarididae
Anomalocaris canadensis Whiteaves 1892
Daley and Budd 2010
Radiodonta - Hurdiidae
Hurdia victoria Walcott 1912
Daley and Budd 2010
Radiodonta
Caryosyntrips serratus Daley and Budd 2010
Daley and Budd 2010
Laggania nathorsti
Daley and Budd 2010
Megacheira - Kootenichelidae
Worthenella cambria Walcott 1911
Legg 2013
unclassified
Priscansermarinus barnetti n. gen., n. sp. Collins and Rudkin 1981
Collins and Rudkin 1981
Luolishaniida - Collinsovermidae
Ovatiovermis cribratus n. gen., n. sp. Caron and Aria 2017
Caron and Aria 2017
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:  Bathyuriscus-Elrathina
Age range of interval: 511 - 506.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Burgess Shale Member:Walcott Quarry Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Pagetia bootes subzone, 7.6 m thick "Greater Phyllopod 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:121962
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, P. Wagner, P. Novack-Gottshall, M. Smith, M. Uhen Enterer:U. Merkel, P. Novack-Gottshall, L. Na, M. Krause, P. Wagner, M. Uhen, M. Smith
Modifier:L. Na Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-12-13 00:02:27 Last modified:2014-03-31 08:46:40
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-06-13 00:02:27
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]

Secondary references:

88866 J.-B. Caron and C. Aria. 2017. Cambrian suspension-feeding lobopodians and the early radiation of panarthropods. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17-29 [L. Bento Da Costa/L. Bento Da Costa/P. Novack-Gottshall]
84794 J.-B. Caron, S. Conway Morris, and D. Shu. 2010. Tentaculate fossils from the Cambrian of Canada (British Columbia) and China (Yunnan) interpreted as primitive deuterostomes. PLoS One 5(3):e9586 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]
85269 J.-B. Caron, S. Conway Morris, and C.B. Cameron. 2013. Tubicolous enteropneusts from the Cambrian period. Nature 495:503-506 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]
4862 D. Collins and D. M. Rudkin. 1981. Priscansermarinus barnetti, a Probable Lepadomorph Barnacle from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. Journal of Paleontology 55(5):1006-1015 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]
71598 S. Conway Morris. 1993. Ediacaran-like fossils in Cambrian Burgess Shale-type faunas of North America. Palaeontology 36(3):593-635 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
50587 A. C. Daley and G. E. Budd. 2010. New anomalocaridid appendages from the Burgess Shale, Canada. Palaeontology 53(4):721-738 [W. Kiessling/L. Na]
47269 D. Legg. 2013. Multi-segmented arthropods from the Middle Cambrian of British Columbia(Canada). Journal of Paleontology 87(3):493-501 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]
51645 M. R. Smith and J. -B. Caron. 2010. Primitive soft-bodied cephalopods from the Cambrian. Nature 465:469-472 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]