Upper Canyon section. PR 3 Bed 89. Peel River (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Yukon, Canada (65.9° N, 135.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.9° N, 57.1° W)

When: Tetragraptus approximatus graptolite zone, Lower Road River Formation (Road River Group), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: black, cherty/siliceous shale

• black chert, dark shale & limestone; debris flows, thin conglomerates & turbidites

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. E. Jackson and A. C. Lenz. 2006. The sequence and correlation of Early Ordovician (Arenig) graptolite faunas in the Richardson Trough and Misty Creek Embayment, Yukon Territory and District of Mackenzie, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 43:1791-1820 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204000: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 29.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Didymograptidae
Didymograptus (Expansograptus) validus
Didymograptus (Expansograptus) validus Törnquist 1901 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Phyllograptidae
Tetragraptus quadribachiatus
 Graptoloidea - Kinnegraptidae
Paradelograptus mosseboensis