Where: Ontario, Canada (46.0° N, 81.9° W: paleocoordinates 22.0° S, 54.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lorraine Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)
• "Pholadomorpha zone = Lorraine Fm", in Foerste (1924)
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and lithified lime mudstone
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 173200: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Susan Scholze on 12.09.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pholadomorpha pholadiformis Hall 1851 clam | |
Tergomya | |
Cyrtolites ornatus Conrad 1838 | |
Strophomenata | |
Plectambonites sericeus Sowerby 1839 |