ammonites
Field, British Columbia, Canada (Cambrian of Canada)

Also known as Reef 1787

Where: British Columbia, Canada (51.4° N, 116.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.3° S, 79.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cathedral Formation, St Davids (513.0 - 501.0 Ma)

• Age only indicated as Middle Cambrian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified dolomite and lithified rudstone

• Dolomitic platform-margin reef with 200 m of syndepositional relief
• Limestone (bindstone, bafflestone) clasts shed from now dolomitic reef rocks

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: J. D. Aitken. 1989. Birth growth and death of the Middle Cambrian Cathedral carbonate lithosome southern Rocky Mountains. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geologists 37:316-333 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 45280: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 19.10.2004