Where: Maine (46.7° N, 68.2° W: paleocoordinates 24.9° S, 42.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pyle Mountain Argillite Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
• Underlies Frenchville Formation; overlies Winterville Formation (Climacograptus spiniferus zone).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, fine-grained, green siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: R. B. Neuman. 1994. Late Ordovician (Ashgill) Foliomena Fauna Brachiopods from Northeastern Maine. Journal of Paleontology 68(6):1218-1234 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 185954: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 29.05.2017, edited by Melanie Hopkins
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Pelmatozoa "Undetermined stem plates" Leuckart 1848 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
? Cyclospira cf. scanica Sheehan 1973 | |
Skenidioides "sp. indet." Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Strophomenata | |
Anisopleurella "sp. indet." Cooper 1956 | |
Nubialba forbesi n. gen. n. sp., Christiania "sp. indet."
Nubialba forbesi n. gen. n. sp. Neuman 1994
Christiania "sp. indet." Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Aegiromenidae "genus and species undetermined" Havlicek 1961
? Aegiromena "sp. indet." HavlĂcek 1961 | |
Leptestiina cf. prantli Havlicek 1952 | |
? Anoptambonites "sp. indet." Williams 1962 | |
Paromalomena inequistriata n. sp.
Paromalomena inequistriata n. sp. Neuman 1994 | |
Foliomena folium Barrande 1879 | |
Lingulata | |
? Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
? Acanthambonia sp. Cooper 1956 | |
Bivalvia | |
Dystactella "sp. indet." Hall and Whitfield 1872 Awning Clam | |
Trilobita | |
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
Raphiophorus sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
? Raymondella sp. Reed 1935 trilobite
Lonchodomas sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite | |
Dionide sp. Barrande 1847 trilobite | |
Novaspis cf. albida trilobite
Nankinolithus granulatus Wahlenberg 1818 trilobite
Tretaspis sp. M'Coy 1849 trilobite | |
Asaphidae indet. Burmeister 1843 trilobite | |
"Amphitryon radians" = Amphitryon murchisonii
"Amphitryon radians" = Amphitryon murchisonii Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
? Nileus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Microparia (Heterocyclopyge) sp., Symphysops sp., Cyclopyge quadriangularis, Cyclopyge spp., Cyclopyge aff. marginata
Microparia (Heterocyclopyge) sp. Marek 1961 trilobite
Symphysops sp. Raymond 1925 trilobite
Cyclopyge quadriangularis trilobite
Cyclopyge spp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Cyclopyge aff. marginata trilobite | |
Dicranopeltis sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
? Carmon sp. Barrande 1872 trilobite | |
Panderia megalophthalma Linnarsson 1869 trilobite | |
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Dalmanitina sp. Reed 1905 trilobite | |
Staurocephalus cf. clavifrons Angelin 1878 trilobite
Dindymene whittingtoni Owen and Bruton 2012 trilobite
Dindymene whittingtoni n. sp. Owen and Bruton 2012 trilobite | |
Cheiruridae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Pseudosphaerexochus sp. Schmidt 1881 trilobite | |
Telephina cf. fracta Barrande 1852 trilobite | |
? Ogmocnemis sp. Kielan 1960 trilobite | |
Hibbertia sp. Jones and Woodward 1899 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
Sphaeragnostus sp. Cooper and Kindle 1936 |