Plethometopus glaber Fauna: Sunwaptan, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenuridae
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Rasettia cf. wichitaensis
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Platydiamesus sp.
Raymond 1937
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Trilobita
- Harpetida
- Entomaspididae
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Heterocaryon vargum n. sp.
Westrop 1986
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Trilobita
- Ptychopariida
- Plethopeltidae
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Plethometopus sp.
Ulrich 1931
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Plethometopus glaber n. sp.
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Leiocoryphe platycephala
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Trilobita
- Ptychopariida
- Catillicephalidae
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Theodenisia sp.
Clark 1948
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Triarthropsis cf. marginata
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Eurekiidae
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Eurekia eos
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"Bayfieldia" simata
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Dikelocephalidae
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Calvinella tenuisculpta
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Calvinella cf. procera
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Ptychaspididae
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Proricephalus wilcoxensis
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Idiomesus intermedius
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Macronoda cf. prima
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Wilcoxaspis bulbosa
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 51.5° North, 116.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 2.8° South, 75.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Furongian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Sunwaptan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 493 - 487.5 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mistaya | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: approximately 120m above base of Mistaya Fm. at Chaba Creek | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | stromatolitic lithified "carbonate" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: Mistaya Formation comprises 98m of cliff-forming dolostones at its type section at Mount Murchison. Undolomitized to the north display subtidal-supratidal carbonate facies | |||
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 54096 | ||
| Authorizer: | S. Peters | Enterer: | S. Peters |
| Modifier: | S. Peters | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-09-22 15:44:01 | Last modified: | 2006-09-12 12:35:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-09-22 15:44:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14608. | S. R. Westrop. 1986. Trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Sunwaptan Stage, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta. Palaeontographica Canadiana 3:1-179 [S. Peters/S. Peters/U. Merkel] |