Clay Cliffs, Cape Smyth (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Ontario, Canada (45.7° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 21.6° S, 52.1° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Meaford Member (Georgian Bay Formation), Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: A. F. Foerste. 1924. Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 138(121):1-99 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155173: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 29.03.2014

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Taxonomic list

Tergomya
 Archinacellida - Archinacellidae
 Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
Cyrtolites ornatus Conrad 1838
 Tryblidiida - Proplinidae
Vallatotheca manitoulini n. gen. n. sp.
Vallatotheca manitoulini n. gen. n. sp. Foerste 1914
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Cyclonema bilix Conrad 1842 snail
Cyclonema bilix conicum
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Oxydiscus perstriatus" = Joleaudella perstriatus, "Bellerophon mohri" = Sphenosphaera mohri
"Oxydiscus perstriatus" = Joleaudella perstriatus Foerste 1924 snail
"Bellerophon mohri" = Sphenosphaera mohri Miller 1874 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
? Salpingostoma lata Foerste 1924 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Lophospira belli" = Ruedemannia humilis, "Lophospira bowdeni" = Paupospira bowdeni
"Lophospira belli" = Ruedemannia humilis Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
"Lophospira bowdeni" = Paupospira bowdeni Safford 1869 snail
 Murchisoniina - Phanerotrematidae
"Lophospira kindlei" = Brachytomaria kindlei
"Lophospira kindlei" = Brachytomaria kindlei Foerste 1924 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Clathrospira conica Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
"Liospira helena" = Paraliospira helena Billings 1860 snail