Section W-1. 062.5 - 065.5 m. South Thundercloud Range, District of Mackenzie: Edenian - Maysvillian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Cybeloides sp. Slocum 1913
Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Whittakerites sp. Ludvigsen 1976
Acanthoparypha goniopyga Ludvigsen 1979
Ceraurinus serratus
Ceraurinus sp. Barton 1913
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Calyptaulax sp. Cooper 1930
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Bumastoides sp. (Whittington 1954)
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Oepikina cf. bellula
original and current combination Opikina
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Holtedahlina sulcata (Hall and Clarke 1892)
Strophomena sulcata
Strophomena cf. wisconsinensis
Strophomena vetusta James 1874
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Thaerodonta recedens (Sardeson 1892)
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira turgida
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Hypsiptycha argenturbicum (White 1874)
Lepidocyclus perlamellosus (Whitfield 1878)
recombined as Lepidocyclus perlamellosa
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis cf. pyramidalis (Twenhofel 1928)
recombined as Skenidioides pyramidalis
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Plaesiomys (Plaesiomys) columbia
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
? Paucicrura sp. Cooper 1956
Conodonta - Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Drepanoistodus suberectus (Branson and Mehl 1933)
3 specimens
Conodonta - Prioniodontida
Oulodus ulrichi
9 specimens
Conodonta - Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Pseudobelodina kirki
3 specimens
Pseudobelodina dispansa (Glenister 1957)
1 specimen
Pseudobelodina vulgaris Sweet 1979
8 specimens
Pseudobelodina torta Sweet 1979
1 specimen
Panderodus feulneri (Glenister 1957)
34 specimens
Panderodus panderi (Stauffer 1940)
3 specimens
Culumbodina penna
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Northwest Territories
Coordinates: 62.5° North, 125.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.9° North, 57.1° West
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Katian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Edenian - Maysvillian Conodont zone: Oulodus robustus
Age range of interval:451.10000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Whittaker
Local section:W-1 Local bed:62.5 - 65.5 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Whittakerites planatus trilobites zone.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: limestone
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Metadata
Database number:192143
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2018-03-12 23:47:53 Last modified:2021-12-28 15:26:57
Access level:the public Released:2018-03-12 23:47:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

65005. C. E. Mitchell and W. C. Sweet. 1989. Upper Ordovician conodonts, brachiopods, and chronostratigraphy of the Whittaker Formation, southwestern District of Mackenzie, N. W. T., Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 26:74-87 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]