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
? Protoconchioides rasettii n. sp. Geyer 1994
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]