Where: Ontario, Canada (43.1° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.7° S, 28.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Arkona Shale Formation, Middle Devonian (393.3 - 382.7 Ma)
• Middle Devonian Arkona Shale, about fifteen feet below top of the formation, a thin lens (about 3.2 cm greatest thickness). A thin lens of crinoidal "hash" on which were exceptional numbers of platycerid gastropods.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by G. Denis Thorn in 1968; reposited in the UMMP
Primary reference: R. V. Kesling. 1969. A new Brittle-star from the Middle Devonian Arkona Shale of Ontario. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 23(2):37-51 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 193694: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 03.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Arthroacantha carpenteri Sea lily | |
? Corocrinus calypso Sea lily | |
Ancyrocrinus bulbosus Hall 1862 Sea lily | |
"Botryocrinus arkonensis" = Decorocrinus arkonensis
"Botryocrinus arkonensis" = Decorocrinus arkonensis Goldring 1950 Sea lily | |
? Poteriocrinites arkonensis Sea lily | |
Ophiuroidea | |
Eugasterella thorni n. gen. n. sp.
Eugasterella thorni n. gen. n. sp. Kesling 1969 brittle star | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Mucrospirifer sp. Grabau 1931 | |
Gastropoda | |
Platyceratidae indet. Hall 1859 snail | |
Ostracoda | |
Ponderodictya sp. Coryell and Malkin 1936 ostracod | |
Ctenoloculina sp. Bassler 1941 ostracod | |
Dizygopleura sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1923 ostracod |