W4d, 5 m above base Ross Lake Section Unit 5. 0.2 M NE of upper end of Ross Lake: Solvan, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Tergomya
- Tryblidiida
- Protoconchoididae
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? Protoconchioides rasettii n. sp.
Geyer 1994
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Scenella sp. of earlier lists | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | British Columbia |
Coordinates: | 52.8° North, 119.3° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 1.9° South, 77.8° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Cambrian |
10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 3 |
Key time interval: | Solvan |
Age range of interval: | 510 - 504.5 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Mount Whyte | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Delamaran on N. American scale |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray lithified "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: dark gray crystalline limestone | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Geology comments: "135 ft. of siliceous, fissile, dark grey shale, outer detrital belt, geosynclinal (pre-orogenic) BA4?" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:"C Deiss 1939. Cambrian formations of southwestern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia. GSA Bull. 50:951-1026." |
Metadata
Also known as: | Yoho National Park | ||
Database number: | 50545 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2005-05-17 11:31:15 | Last modified: | 2005-05-17 14:45:01 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-05-17 11:31:15 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
11618. | G. Geyer. 1994. Middle Cambrian mollusks from Idaho and early conchiferan evolution. New York State Museum Bulletin 481(1):69-86 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |