Section N - collection N-33: Dresbachian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Agnostida
Phalagnostus rasetti
Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
Proagnostus bulbus Butts 1926
Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Tomagnostella exsculpta (Angelin 1851)
Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Nahannagnostus logani Pratt 1992
Oedorhachis typicalis
Agnostida - Agnostidae
? Homagnostus sp. Howell 1935
Agnostus exsulatus
? Kormagnostus beltensis
Kormagnostus seclusus (Walcott 1884)
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Norwoodiidae
Hardyoides cf. tenerus
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Kingstoniidae
Kingstonia bealesoides
Blountia beltensis
Bynumia cf. eumus Walcott 1924
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Lonchocephalidae
? Lonchocephalus pholus
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Menomoniidae
? Bolaspidella sp. Resser 1937
Hysteropleura schucherti
synonym of Bolaspidella
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Catillicephalidae
Pemphigaspis intermedia
Distazeris acuta
? Onchonotopis kobluki
original and current combination Onchonotopsis
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Marjumiidae
Holmdalia punctata
Modocia dubia
Modocia sp. Walcott 1924
? Modocia sp. Walcott 1924
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Cedaria minor (Walcott 1916)
original and current combination Asaphiscus minor
Trilobita - Llanoaspididae
Genevievella simon
? Genevievella campbellina
Nahannicephalus sp. Pratt 1992
Trilobita - Olenida - Cedariidae
Vernaculina wilsoni
Cedarina cordillerae
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Yukon
Coordinates: 62.7° North, 128.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.1° North, 64.3° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Furongian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 5
Key time interval:Dresbachian
Age range of interval:497.00000 - 485.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Rabbitkettle
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination lithified argillaceous,calcareous siltstone
Secondary lithology:planar lamination,fine lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica,replaced with phosphate
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:chemical,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:55211
Authorizer:S. Peters Enterer:S. Peters
Modifier:S. Peters Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-09-29 11:00:59 Last modified:2005-09-29 19:09:25
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-29 11:00:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

14672. B.R. Pratt. 1992. Trilobites of the Marjuman and Steptoean stages (Upper Cambrian), Rabbitkettle Formation, southern Mackenzie Mountains, northwest Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana (9)1-109 [S. Peters/S. Peters/S. Peters]