Pen Island 1, Hudson Bay Basin, Belodina confluens Z (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Manitoba, Canada (56.7° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 11.5° S, 52.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belodina confluens conodont zone, Portage Chute Formation (Bad Cache Rapids Group), Chatfieldian to Chatfieldian (453.8 - 450.2 Ma)

• Belodina confluens zone of Bad Cache Rapids is the Portage Chute formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and dolomite

• limestone, locally dolomitic and evaporitic, with thin basal clastic rocks

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: S. Zhang and C. R. Barnes. 2007. Late Ordovician- Early Silurian conodont biostratigraphy and thermal maturity, Hudson Bay Basin. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 55(3):179-216 [E. Jarochowska/P. Nätscher]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177642: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.04.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
  - Coleodontidae
"Neocoleodus" sp. Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Pseudobelodina sp. Sweet 1979 conodont
Pseudobelodina dispansa Glenister 1957 conodont
Panderodus unicostatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Belodina confluens Sweet 1979 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont