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Elliptocephala logani Walcott 1910

Description

Elliptocephala logani Walcott, 1910

Fig. 5

Elliptocephala logani Walcott, 1910, p. 333, pl. 41, figs. 5, 6; Lieberman, 1999, p. 61, fig. 12.5, see for complete synonymy.

Material examined. KUMIP 355558-355560 and PWNHC-2013.23.17-19.

Occurrence. Canada: Northwest Territories, the type section of the Sekwi Formation (Hanfield 1968), see Fritz (1972); Olenellus zone or Waucoban Series, Dyeran stage, sensu Webster (2011a, b) and Webster et al. (2011), early Cambrian, Sekwi Formation, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada, Northwest Territories, Section 3, 700– 800 m above the base, and Section 4 in float; Yukon Territory, the Illtyd Formation, Fritz’s (1991) Unit 3, Olenellus zone, Wernecke Mountains; Newfoundland, the Forteau Formation, Olenellus Zone, L’Anse au Loup, straits of Belle Isle, Labrador.

Notes

Published as part of Gapp, I. Wesley & Lieberman, Bruce S., 2014, New olenelloid trilobites from the Northwest Territories, Canada, pp. 479-498 in Zootaxa 3866 (4) on page 488, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/249698

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Wanneriidae
Genus
Elliptocephala
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Redlichiida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Walcott
Species
logani
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Elliptocephala logani Walcott, 1910 sec. Gapp & Lieberman, 2014

References

  • Walcott, C. D. (1910) Olenellus and other genera of the Mesonacidae. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 53 (6), 231 - 422.
  • Lieberman, B. S. (1999) Systematic revision of the Olenelloidea (Trilobita, Cambrian). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 45, 1 - 150. [Yale University]
  • Hanfield, R. C. (1968) Sekwi Formation, a new Lower Cambrian formation in the Southern Mackenzie Mountains, District of Mackenzie. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 68 - 47, 1 - 23.
  • Fritz, W. H. (1972) Lower Cambrian trilobites from the Sekwi Formation type section, Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin, 212, 1 - 90.
  • Webster, M. (2011 a) Trilobite biostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Dyeran (traditional Laurentian " Lower Cambrian ") in the southern Great Basin, U. S. A. In: Hollingsworth, J. S., Sundberg, F. A. & Foster, J. R. (Eds.), Cambrian Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Northern Arizona and Southern Nevada. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin, 67, 121 - 154.
  • Webster, M. (2011 b) Stops 7 A, 7 B, and 7 C, Upper Dyeran litho- and biostratigraphy of the Split Mountain area, Nevada. In: Hollingsworth, J. S., Sundberg, F. A. & Foster, J. R. (Eds.), Cambrian Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Northern Arizona and Southern Nevada. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin, 67, 236 - 246.