Upper Cambrian to Lower Ordovician Conodont Biostratigraphy and Biofacies, Rabbitkettle Formation, District of Mackenzie


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Conodonts have been recovered from two sections through the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary beds of the upper Rabbitkettle Formation, near the headwaters of the Broken Skull River, western Mackenzie Mountains. This report contributes towards a biofacies evaluation of Cambrian-Ordovician boundary bed conodonts and illustrates the probable limitations on a highly resolved conodont-based correlation of this interval between strongly constrasting lithofacies.




Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician Trilobite Biostratigraphy of the Rabbitkettle Formation, Western District of Mackenzie


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Two measured sections of the upper Rabbitkettle Formation in the western District of Mackenzie are separated by a thrust fault. These sections provide a record of silicified tribobite faunas across the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary in open marine carbonate rocks along the deeper portion of the shelf - a North American palaeogeographic setting not previously extensively sampled for macrofossils.
















Ordovician to Triassic Conodont Paleontology of the Canadian Cordillera


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This compilation is a synthesis of Ordovician-Triassic conodont research undertaken in the Canadian Cordillera during the past decade. The studies include an overview of the record in Western Canada; a review of the paleontology; and descriptions of conodonts from the Cordillera Road River group in northern Yukon Territory, from the eastern and northern Canadian cordillera, of the Palliser Formation in the Rocky Mountains, and from the Cache Creek Complex in south-central B.C.







Aspects of the Ordovician System


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