Wilcox Peak, section W, 107.3 m: Sunwaptan, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Olenida - Parabolinoididae
Croixana ambigua
Trilobita - Asaphida - Ptychaspididae
Ptychaspis cf. miniscaensis (Owen 1852)
Trilobita - Ellipsocephaloididae
Ellipsocephaloides monsensis
Ellipsocephaloides silvestris
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 52.2° North, 117.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.2° South, 74.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Furongian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 5
Key time interval:Sunwaptan
Age range of interval:493.00000 - 487.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bison Creek
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Ellipsocephaloides zone, E. silvestris subzone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: thrombolite buildups
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 1395
Database number:81296
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-06-18 02:12:50 Last modified:2008-06-18 09:04:27
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
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]