Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (62.5° N, 125.3° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° N, 55.5° W)
When: Aphelognathus divergens conodont zone, Lower Whittaker Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)
• Above Whittakerites planatus zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original silica
Reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: C. E. Mitchell and W. C. Sweet. 1989. Upper Ordovician conodonts, brachiopods, and chronostratigraphy of the Whittaker Formation, southwestern District of Mackenzie, N. W. T., Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 26:74-87 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 192137: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 12.03.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont | |
Oulodus rohneri conodont | |
Panderodus feulneri Glenister 1957 conodont
Pseudobelodina vulgaris Sweet 1979 conodont | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Hypsiptycha argenturbicum, "Lepidocyclus perlamellosus" = Lepidocyclus perlamellosa
Hypsiptycha argenturbicum White 1874
"Lepidocyclus perlamellosus" = Lepidocyclus perlamellosa Whitfield 1878 | |
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Strophomenata | |
"Thaerodonta aff. magna" = Eochonetes magna
"Thaerodonta aff. magna" = Eochonetes magna Howe 1965 | |
Ostracoda | |
Schmidtella sp. Ulrich 1892 ostracod | |
? Platyrhomboides sp. ostracod |