Phacopidae, Cape Phillips Fm., Sheinwoodian part, BH secs., Baillie-Hamilton Is. (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (75.8° N, 94.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.5° N, 32.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: perneri-opimus zone, Cape Phillips Formation, Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)

• Age calls by authors based on interfingering beds with rich graptolite fauna (see PBDB ref. 7197).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; packstone and wackestone

• See lithology.

•SEP environmental call based on given info and regional context

• Cape Phillips Formation in general "comprised mainly of calcareous shales and argillaceous limestones." The trilobites are said occur in packstones and wackestones that are interpreted as debris flows (PBDB ref. 7197).

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: J. M. Adrain and E. W. MacDonald. 1996. Phacopid trilobites from the Silurian of Arctic Canada. Journal of Paleontology 70:1091-1094 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26002: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 30.09.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Eophacops sp.
Eophacops sp. Delo 1935 trilobite