Mackenzie Mountains: Botomian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ludloviaceae
Epiphyton sp. Bornemann 1886
Agnostida - Weymouthiidae
Serrodiscus sp. (Richter and Richter 1941)
Archaeocyatha - Capsulocyathida - Fransuasaecyathidae
Acanthopyrgus yukonensis n. sp. Handfield 1967
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Yukon
Coordinates: 61.6° North, 128.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.8° South, 70.0° West
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Series 2
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 2-3
*Period:Early/Lower Cambrian - Middle Cambrian *Epoch:Caerfai
Key time interval: Botomian
Age range of interval: 515.6 - 512.5 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: AGE: Botomian; refined by A. Hendy (6/2009) on the basis of biostratigraphic data.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: thin limestone at the base of a dark shale unit.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:replaced with calcite
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: The specimens show recrystalization or calcite shells.
Metadata
Database number:9819
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:P. Borkow
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2001-01-23 12:01:00 Last modified:2009-06-12 12:30:00
Access level:the public Released:2001-01-23 12:01:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
851. R. C. Handfield. 1967. A new Lower Cambrian Archaeocyatha?. Journal of Paleontology 41(1):209-212 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]