Sundance Range, section S, 90.3 m: Sunwaptan, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Asaphida - Ptychaspididae
Keithiella sp. Rasetti 1944
Kathleenella frontalis
Trilobita - Asaphida - Eurekiidae
Corbinia implumis
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenurus quadratus Hall 1863
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Illaenuridae
Rasettia sp. Lochman 1953
Agnostida - Agnostidae
Micragnostus insolitus (Grant 1965)
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 51.1° North, 115.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.2° South, 76.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Furongian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 4
Key time interval:Sunwaptan
Age range of interval:498.50000 - 485.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mistaya
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Illaenurus zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: thrombolite buildup
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 3796
Database number:81305
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-06-18 05:29:24 Last modified:2008-07-21 06:37:23
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]