Site 15. Bull River Valley (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.7° N, 115.3° W: paleocoordinates 3.4° S, 77.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wujiajiania lyndasmithae trilobite zone, McKay Group, Steptoean (497.0 - 493.5 Ma)

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; calcareous mudstone and argillaceous limestone

• See description of lithology.
• The McKay Group in the Bull River Valley consists of comparatively deepwater (largely below storm-wave base) calcareous mudstone or shale with minor amounts of thin, discontinuous (from one section to another) argillaceous limestone beds.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. D. E. Chatterton. 2020. Mid-Furongian trilobites and agnostids from the Wujiajiania lyndasmithae Subzone of the Elvinia Zone, McKay Group, southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 94(4):653-680 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 219685: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.04.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Olenida - Aphelaspidae
Labiostria gibbae, ? Eugonocare phillipi, ? Eugonocare sp., Pseudeugonocare bispinatum, Olenaspella chrisnewi
Labiostria gibbae Chatterton 2020 trilobite
? Eugonocare sp. Whitehouse 1939 trilobite
Pseudeugonocare bispinatum Kobayashi 1962 trilobite
 Olenida - Olenidae
Aciculolenus askewi n. sp., Wujiajiania lyndasmithae
Aciculolenus askewi n. sp. Chatterton 2020 trilobite
15A or 15B
Wujiajiania lyndasmithae Chatterton and Gibb 2016 trilobite
 Olenida - Pterocephaliidae
Cernuolimbus ludvigseni, Housia vacuna
Housia vacuna Walcott 1890 trilobite
15C
 Ptychopariida - Elviniidae
Irvingella convexa, Irvingella "sp. B Chatterton and Gibb 2016", Irvingella flohri, Elvinia roemeri
Irvingella "sp. B Chatterton and Gibb 2016" Ulrich and Resser 1924 trilobite
Irvingella flohri Resser 1942 trilobite
Elvinia roemeri trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Phylacteridae
Cliffia nicoleae n. sp.
Cliffia nicoleae n. sp. Chatterton 2020 trilobite
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Proceratopyge rectispinata, Proceratopyge canadensis
Proceratopyge rectispinata Troedsson 1937 trilobite
15A, 15B & 15C
Proceratopyge canadensis Chatterton and Ludvigsen 1998 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida -
? Grandagnostus "sp. 1"
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Agnostotes orientalis, "Pseudagnostus cf. josepha" = Pseudagnostus josephus, Pseudagnostus securiger
Agnostotes orientalis Kobayashi 1935
"Pseudagnostus cf. josepha" = Pseudagnostus josephus Hall 1863