GSC C-205924. Advance Mountain (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.0° N, 123.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.0° N, 63.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belodina compressa conodont zone, Lower Member (Advance Formation), Turinian (457.3 - 453.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, dolomitic, argillaceous limestone and lithified, calcareous shale

• environmental interpretation from paper, but this is almost certainly incorrect and no evidence is presented to suggest a slope setting
• Argillaceous, aphanitic to very fine grained, dark grey, weathering light grey and dull grey, platy, recessive; bedding 2-20 cm, wavy, some beds nodular. Limy shale interbeds 10-150Jo of rocks, olive-grey, weathering dull oli ve-grey; bedding 0.5-3 cm. Rare greyish black chert nodules (with off-white coronae) in upper 5 m.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: B. S. Norford. 1996. Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Advance Formation, a new upper Middle Ordovician unit, northern Rocky Mountains, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 491:5-19 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192195: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.03.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
  -
Echinodermata "debris", Oistodontiformes "element indet."
Conodonta
 Prioniodontida -
Aphelognathus sp., Phragmodus cf. undatus
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus gracilis, Belodina sp.
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Belodina sp. Ethington 1959 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Drepanoistodus suberectus
Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Inarticulata
  -
Inarticulata indet.
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) alternata2
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Hiscobeccus mackenziensis2
 Orthida - Paurorthidae
Paurorthis ponderosa2
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Paucicrura rogata2
Paucicrura rogata2 Sardeson 1892
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis assimilis2
Glyptorthis assimilis2 Cooper 1956
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Platystrophia colbiensis2
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
aff. Bucania sp.3
aff. Bucania sp.3 Hall 1847 snail
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
Murchisonia (Murchisonia) sp.3
Murchisonia (Murchisonia) sp.3 d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841 snail
Palaeoscolecida
  -
Milaculum sp.
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Grewingkia burdenensis1
1Elias 1996; 2Jin and Norford 1996; 3Rohr 1996