Mobil Colville E-15 well, 4,837 ft [Mount Cap Fm]: Middle Cambrian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Trilobita
- Ptychopariida
- Alokistocaridae
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Amecephalus sp.
Walcott 1924
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Hyolithida
- Hyolithidae
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Hyolithes sp.
d'Eichwald 1840
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Northwest Territories | County: | Mackenzie |
| Coordinates: | 67.2° North, 126.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.3° South, 63.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Miaolingian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 3-4 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Cambrian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 509.00000 - 497.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mount Cap | ||||
| Local section: | Mobil Colville E-15 well | Local bed: | 4837 ft | ||
| Local order: | top to bottom | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Mount Cap or Old Fort Island Fm. AGE: Cambrian, in text. Revised on the basis of faunal similarity by enterer. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 4,837 in well. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of age and preparation technique. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | core,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | GSC |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: GSC. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for macrofossils. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with relatively modern nomenclature. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 88789 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-04-20 19:51:46 | Last modified: | 2018-11-18 16:10:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-04-20 19:51:46 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29771. | C. R. Barnes, W. W. Brideaux T. P. Chamney et al. 1974. Biostratigraphic determinations of fossils from the subsurface of the Northwest and Yukon Territories. Geological Survey of Canada Paper 74(11):1-30 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |