Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (63.2° N, 126.3° W: paleocoordinates 8.0° N, 55.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Whittaker Formation, Late/Upper Ordovician (458.4 - 443.4 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, argillaceous limestone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, acetic, sieve
Primary reference: G. S. Nowlan, A. D. McCracken, and B. D. E. Chatterton. 1988. Conodonts from Ordovician-Silurian boundary strata, Whittaker Formation, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 373:1-99 [E. Jarochowska/E. Jarochowska]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 180242: authorized by Emilia Jarochowska, entered by Emilia Jarochowska on 12.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Conodonta | |
Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
? Paroistodus "sp. A" Lindström 1971 conodont | |
Plectodina tenuis conodont | |
Oulodus rohneri conodont | |
Scabbardella altipes Hennigsmoen 1948 conodont | |
Belodina confluens, ? Panderodus gibber, Panderodus gracilis, Panderodus rhamphoides, ? Pseudobelodina dispansa
Belodina confluens Sweet 1979 conodont
? Panderodus gibber conodont
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Panderodus rhamphoides Aldridge and Mohamed 1982 conodont
? Pseudobelodina dispansa Glenister 1957 conodont | |
Besselodus borealis Nowlan et al. 1988 conodont |