Phacopid trilobites from the Silurian of Arctic Canada

• Published in: Journal of Paleontology
• Main Authors: Adrain, Jonathan M., MacDonald, Eugene W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1996
• Subjects: Paleontology; Arctic; Canada; Cape Phillips
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000038798; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022336000038798

Diverse silicified trilobite faunas from the lower Wenlock to lower Ludlow of the Cape Phillips Formation, central Canadian Arctic, have been the subject of works by Perry and Chatterton (1977), Chatterton and Perry (1979), Adrain (1994), and Adrain and Edgecombe (1995, and in press). The present work describes a very minor component of these faunas, the family Phacopidae, which is nevertheless of considerable biogeographic interest.