Gorrel point NE of Gore Bay, Sheguiandah Shale (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Ontario, Canada (45.9° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 22.3° S, 56.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Sheguiandah Formation, Edenian (451.0 - 450.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

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 173033: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Susan Scholze on 08.09.2015

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Richinidae
Jonesella crepidiformis Ulrich 1890 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Euprimitiidae
Laccoprimitia centralis Ulrich 1890 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bythocyprididae
Bythocypris cylindrica Hall 1871 ostracod