O-35 drillcore, 1352 m: Waucoban, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Palaeoscolecida
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Palaeoscolecida indet.
Conway-Morris and Robison 1986
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unclassified
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Wiwaxia sp.
Walcott 1911
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Northwest Territories |
| Coordinates: | 66.6° North, 126.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 6.0° South, 67.3° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 1-3 | ||
| Key time interval: | Waucoban | Trilobite zone: | Bonnia - Olenellus |
| Age range of interval: | 538.8 - 509 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mount Cap |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | black lithified "shale" |
| Lithology description: Black shale/siltstone | |
| Environment: | offshore shelf |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with pyrite |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | core |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | GSC |
Metadata
| Database number: | 227949 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2022-11-11 16:55:21 | Last modified: | 2022-11-11 16:55:21 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2022-11-11 16:55:21 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 424. | N. J. Butterfield. 1994. Burgess Shale-type fossils from a Lower Cambrian shallow-shelf sequence in northwestern Canada. Nature 369(9):477-479 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow] |