3/4 of a mile S of Clay cliffs, Lorraine Fm. (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Ontario, Canada (45.7° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 22.3° S, 53.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Lorraine Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)

• "Pholadomorpha zone = Lorraine Fm", in Foerste (1924)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 173021: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Susan Scholze on 08.09.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Unioni - Lyrodesmatidae
Lyrodesma poststriatum Emmons 1842 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis borealis Foerste 1924 clam
Modiolopsis borealis postdeclivis
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Pterina (Caritodens) demissa" = Pterinea demissa
"Pterina (Caritodens) demissa" = Pterinea demissa Conrad 1842 oyster
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Byssonychia radiata Hall 1847 clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Clidophorus planulatus Conrad 1847 pointed nut clam
Tergomya
 Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
Cyrtolites ornatus Conrad 1838