Vars, Lorraine Fm. (Ordovician of Canada)
Where: Ontario, Canada (45.4° N, 75.4° W: paleocoordinates 24.9° S, 50.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Lorraine Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)
• "Proetus zone and Leptaena zone = Lorraine Fm", in Foerste (1924)
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 173248: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Susan Scholze on 14.09.2015
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Taxonomic list
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| Strophomenata | |
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Plectambonites sericeus Sowerby 1839 | |
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Rafinesquina alternata Conrad 1838
Rafinesquina mucronata Foerste 1914 | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Eotomaria canalifera Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Lyrodesma poststriatum Emmons 1842 clam | |
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Byssonychia radiata Hall 1847 clam | |
| Ostracoda | |
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Ctenobolbina ciliata Emmons 1855 ostracod | |
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Bythocypris cylindrica Hall 1871 ostracod | |