Vars, Waynesville Fm. (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Ontario, Canada (45.4° N, 75.4° W: paleocoordinates 24.2° S, 48.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Waynesville Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 173150: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Susan Scholze on 10.09.2015

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Catazyga headi Billings 1862
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
 Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
"Crania scabiosa" = Petrocrania scabiosa
"Crania scabiosa" = Petrocrania scabiosa Hall 1866
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Pterina (Caritodens) demissa" = Pterinea demissa
"Pterina (Caritodens) demissa" = Pterinea demissa Conrad 1842 oyster