GSC loc. 92207: Sunwaptan, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Trilobita
- Olenida
- Olenidae
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Apoplanias rejectus
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Remopleurididae
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Apatokephaloides clivosus
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Eurekiidae
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Corbinia horatio
Walcott 1924
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 52.9° North, 118.1° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.6° South, 74.3° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Furongian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 5 | ||
| *Period: | Late/Upper Cambrian | *Epoch: | Merioneth |
| Key time interval: | Sunwaptan | Trilobite zone: | Corbinia apopsis |
| Age range of interval: | 493 - 487.5 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Survey Peak | Member: | basal silty | ||
| Local section: | Survey Peak | Local bed: | 4.7 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The deposits comprise detrital belts near the margin of Laurentia. Part of the Cambrian Trempealeau Series and the Suakia Zone, Corbinia apopsis Subzone. The limestone pinches out (into shale) according to Figure 2. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified sandy "limestone" |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | GSC |
| Collection method comments: Brachiopods are mentioned to occur in the formation, but their placement and lower taxa names are not given. An index of A to M is used to designate Ordovician biozones (Ross, 1949, 1951a, p.27-29) for the Wilcox Pass Area. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 11080 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | P. Borkow |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-07-09 13:09:03 | Last modified: | 2018-10-04 14:52:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-07-09 13:09:03 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4045. | W. T. Dean. 1989. Trilobites from the Survey Peak, Outram and Skoki Formations (Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician) at Wilcox Pass, Jasper National Park, Alberta). Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin (389)1-141 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Borkow] |