Raymond Quarry, Fossil Ridge: Delamaran, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Heteractinida - Octactinellida - Eiffeliidae
Eiffelia globosa Walcott 1920
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Choiidae
Choia carteri Walcott 1920
Choia ridleyi Walcott 1920
Choia hindei (Dawson 1896)
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Leptomitidae
Leptomitus lineatus (Walcott 1920)
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Hazeliidae
Hazelia dignata (Walcott 1920)
Hazelia palmata Walcott 1920
Falospongia ramosa Rigby and Collins 2004
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Hamptoniidae
Hamptonia bowerbanki Walcott 1920
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Takakkawiidae
Takakkawia lineata Walcott 1920
Demospongiae - Vauxiidae
Vauxia bellula Walcott 1920
Vauxia gracilenta Walcott 1920
Hexactinellida - Reticulosa - Dictyospongiidae
Protoprisma annulata Rigby and Collins 2004
Nectocarididae
Nectocaris pteryx Conway Morris 1976
Smith and Caron 2010
Radiodonta - Hurdiidae
Hurdia victoria
Daley and Budd 2010
Radiodonta - Anomalocarididae
Anomalocaris canadensis
Daley and Budd 2010
Radiodonta
Caryosyntrips serratus n. gen., n. sp. Daley and Budd 2010
Daley and Budd 2010
unclassified
Herpetogaster collinsi Caron et al. 2010
Caron et al. 2010
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 Epoch:Middle Cambrian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 3
Key time interval:Delamaran Trilobite zone: Bathyuriscus-Elrathina
Age range of interval:513.00000 - 505.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Burgess Shale Member:Raymond Quarry Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Pagetia walcotti subzone
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:121963
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, M. Smith, P. Novack-Gottshall Enterer:U. Merkel, P. Novack-Gottshall, L. Na, M. Smith
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-12-13 01:02:53 Last modified:2011-12-12 08:02:53
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-12-13 01:02:53
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:

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]
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]
51645 M. R. Smith and J. -B. Caron. 2010. Primitive soft-bodied cephalopods from the Cambrian. Nature 465:469-472 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]