Royal Creek II partial section at 117.4-119.3 m (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Yukon, Canada (64.8° N, 135.2° W: paleocoordinates 7.3° N, 46.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); conglomeratic limestone

• SEP environmental call based on given info. and regional context
• Overall: "...[section] represents a small enclave of deeper water shales and limestones surrounded by shallow water, massive, light-colored limestone...section consists of a more or less regular alternation of limestones, shaly limestones, and calcareous shale. The limestones are typically very dark and have a high organic content. Some lst beds contain 10-15% chert in the form of irregular masses, show minor brecciation, and may be partially silicfied in a spongy pattern. The shales vary in their calcareous content, so that at the extreme end, might well be defined as platy, shaly lsts. Fossils are for the most part common to abundant in the carbonates, and most are totally silicified..the shales contain a relatively small fauna of scattered graptolites and rare brachiopods..." [Lithology for this particular collection based on reading symbols off schematic section.]

Primary reference: A. C. Lenz. 1977. Yukon Territory. in A. Martinsson, ed. The Silurian-Devonian boundary (IUGS, Series A, Number 5). Schweizerbart'sche, Stuttgart. 272-280 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14008: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• "The shelly faunas...include on the conodonts, brachiopods and corals, the remaining faunas not having as yet been studied." [These other elements include trilobites, echinoderms, sponges, bivalves, and gastropods.]
unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Spongophyllidae
Spongophyllum sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida -
Ozarkodina confluens Rhodes 1953 conodont