Prince of Wales Island (GSC C26917): Lochkovian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
Undispirifer laeviplicatus (Kozlowski 1929)
21 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860
3 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
10 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
26 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858
1312 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
2 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Machaerariidae
3 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
642 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
68 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Schizophoriidae
77 specimens
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
176 specimens
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
Cymostrophia sp. Caster 1939
7 specimens
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Amphistrophiidae
Mesodouvillina sp. Williams 1950
66 specimens
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
57 specimens
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Oriostomatidae
2 specimens
? Gyronema thorsteinssoni Rohr and Smith 1978
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
3 specimens
Wagner 2023
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
17 specimens
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
14 specimens
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Northwest Territories
Coordinates: 73.4° North, 101.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.8° North, 70.1° West (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Devonian Epoch: Early Devonian
Stage: Lochkovian 10 m.y. bin: Devonian 1
*Period:Early/Lower Devonian
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Lochkovian
Key time interval: Lochkovian
Age range of interval: 419.62 - 413.02 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Peel Sound Formation equivalent beds.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified argillaceous,silty lime mudstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: Thin bedded, silty, argillaceous lime mudstone containing argillaceous seams.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Taxonomic list comments:List is gastropods and brachiopods. Fauna also present include "trilobites, pelecypods, auloproid corals, colonial corals, fish, rare to common crinoids, and orthocone cephalopods."
Metadata
Database number:3743
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Wagner Enterer:M. Sommers, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-09 13:06:06 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:32
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
237. D. M. Rohr and R. E. Smith. 1978. Lower Devonian Gastropoda from the Canadian Arctic Islands. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 15:1228-1241 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

275 G. Lindström. 1884. The Silurian Gastropoda and Pteropoda of Gotland. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingasr 19:1-250 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
9042 P. J. Wagner. 2023. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023). [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]