Also known as R 625
Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (63.3° N, 125.3° W: paleocoordinates 7.1° N, 56.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Whittaker Formation, Wildernessian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: chemical,
Primary reference: M. J. Copeland. 1974. Middle Ordovician ostracoda from southwestern District of Mackenzie. Canada Geological Survey Bulletin (244)1-55 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 25867: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 26.09.2002, edited by Melanie Hopkins
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda | |
Krausella inaequalis ostracod
? Krausella cf. acuta ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Whittakerites planatus Ludvigsen 1976 trilobite |