Section W-1. 117 - 126.5 m (Ordovician of Canada)

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
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Prioniodontida -
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus feulneri Glenister 1957 conodont
Pseudobelodina vulgaris Sweet 1979 conodont
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Hypsiptycha argenturbicum, "Lepidocyclus perlamellosus" = Lepidocyclus perlamellosa
"Lepidocyclus perlamellosus" = Lepidocyclus perlamellosa Whitfield 1878
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Plaesiomys occidentalis Ladd 1929
Plaesiomys aff. subquadratus occidentalis
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Thaerodonta aff. magna" = Eochonetes magna
"Thaerodonta aff. magna" = Eochonetes magna Howe 1965
Ostracoda
 Leperditellocopida - Schmidtellidae
Schmidtella sp. Ulrich 1892 ostracod
 Podocopida - Beecherellidae