Sundance Range, section S, 90.3 m: Sunwaptan, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Ptychaspididae
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Keithiella sp.
Rasetti 1944
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Kathleenella frontalis
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Eurekiidae
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Corbinia implumis
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenidae
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Illaenurus quadratus
Hall 1863
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenuridae
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Rasettia sp.
Lochman 1953
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Agnostida
- Agnostidae
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Micragnostus insolitus
(Grant 1965)
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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] |