ammonites

The Burgess Shale (skeletonized fauna), Stephen Fm., British Columbia, Canada: St Davids, Canada

Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 51.4° North, 116.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.4° South, 79.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Middle Cambrian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 3
Key time interval:St Davids Zone: Bathyuriscus - Elrathina
Age range of interval:513.0 - 501.0 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Stephen
Stratigraphy comments: "Bathyuriscus-Elrathina zone, middle M. Camb."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black "shale"
Geology comments: "deep water slope? or basin? (BA6). geosyncline; outer detrital belt"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments: "S.Conway Morris 1979. The Burgess Shale (Middle Cambrian) fauna. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 1979 10:327-349. W.H. Fritz, 1969. Geological Setting of the Burgess Shale. Proc. N. Am. Paleont. Conv. 1969 p.1155-1170."
Metadata
Database number:215
Authorizer:J. Sepkoski, A. Lin, P. Wagner, M. Uhen Enterer:M. Sommers, A. Lin, P. Wagner, M. Uhen
Modifier:C. Visaggi Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1998-11-20 10:07:18 Last modified:2004-03-11 14:25:04
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:07
Reference information
Primary reference:
13 J. J. Sepkoski Jr. 1998. [J. Sepkoski/M. Sommers]

Secondary references:

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]
29721 J. Sprinkle and D. Collins. 2006. New eocrinoids from the Burgess Shale, southern British Columbia, Canada, and the Spence Shale, northern Utah, USA. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 43:303-322 [A. Lin/A. Lin/A. Lin]
19895 C. W. Walcott. 1908. Cambrian Geology and Paleontology: Cambrian Trilobites. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 53(2):13-48 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner]