lower Mount Whyte Fm.: Delamaran, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Trilobita
- Antagmidae
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Onchocephalus sp.
Resser 1937
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Antagmus sp.
Resser 1936
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Dorypygidae
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Bonnia sp.
(Walcott 1916)
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Trilobita
- Redlichiida
- Olenellidae
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Olenellus sp.
Hall 1861
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Trilobita
- Ptychopariida
- Alokistocaridae
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? Inglefieldia sp.
Poulson 1927
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Paterinata
- Paterinida
- Paterinidae
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? Micromitra sp.
Meek 1873
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Lingulata
- Lingulida
- Acrothelidae
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Acrothele sp.
Linnarsson 1876
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | British Columbia |
| Coordinates: | 52.8° North, 119.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 2.2° South, 78.4° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 3 | *Epoch: | Lower |
| Key time interval: | Delamaran | Zone: | Bonnia - Olenellus |
| Age range of interval: | 511 - 506.5 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mount Whyte | Member: | lower | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: Was Cambrian, but "Bonnia-Olenellus zone" tells us Delamaran. |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | current ripples "limestone" |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
| Geology comments: "ls, partially x-bedded; some intraformational congl. shallow carbonate bank, pre-orogenic geosyncline" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:"Deiss 1939" | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 187 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Sepkoski, J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Sommers |
| Modifier: | J. Ju | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1998-11-20 10:07:18 | Last modified: | 2017-01-28 13:27:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1998-11-20 10:07:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 32149. | C. F. Deiss. 1939. Cambrian formations of southwestern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia. Geological Society America Bulletin 50(6):951-1026 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/J. Ju] |