Ellesmere Island, Bache Peninsula, (Police Post Fm.) (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (79.1° N, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.5° S, 54.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Bonnia - Olenellus zone, Police Post Formation, Caerfai (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)

• "Lower Cambrian, Bonnia-Olenellus zone?"

Environment/lithology: peritidal; burrowed, glauconitic, green limestone

• "thin bedded, glauconitic, arenaceous lst. green and dk gray worm trails, pyrite stringers. extremely shallow water...periodic emergent moments."

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Cowie. 1968. Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology: Lower Cambrian Faunas from Ellesmere Island, District of Franklin. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 163:1-38 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

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Taxonomic list

• "Cowie, J. W. 1968. Lower Cambrian faunas from Ellesmere Island, District of Franklin. Geol. Surv. Can. Bull. 163 pp.3-27. Info on litho env from Cowie 1971. "
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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Acrothelidae
? Acrothele sp.
? Acrothele sp. Linnarsson 1876
originally entered as "? Acrothele sp."
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Hyolithes sp.
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Circotheca sp.
Circotheca sp. Syssoiev 1958
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet.
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
indet. olenillid, two kinds
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
"Paedumias sp." = Olenellus (Paedeumias)
"Paedumias sp." = Olenellus (Paedeumias) Walcott 1910 trilobite
2 species - originally entered as "Paedeumias sp."
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Bonniopsis sp.
Bonniopsis sp. Poulsen 1946 trilobite
3 species