Junction of Rock Glen & Ausable River (Devonian of Canada)

Also known as Locality 3 in Kesling 1953 (#72246), Locality 2 in Kesling 1953 (71776)

Where: Ontario, Canada (43.1° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° S, 28.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Arkona Shale Formation, Middle Devonian (393.3 - 382.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, argillaceous shale

• Shale, light gray. Shale weathers easily to clay. Fossils pyritized, covered by limonite stain. Sample from a layer 16 feet below the Encrinal limestone. This layer about 1 foot above a layer containing numerous brachiopods of the genus Leptalosia.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: replaced with pyrite

Collected by Mr. E.P & Mrs. J.D. Wright in 1952

• Collected by Mr. and Mrs. E.P. Wright in 1952

Primary reference: R.V. Kesling . 1953. Ostracods of the Family Hollinidae from the Arkona Shale of Ontario. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 10(9):203-219 [J. Bauer/J. Bauer]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210636: authorized by Jennifer Bauer, entered by Jennifer Bauer on 09.06.2020, edited by Sam Ocon

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Taxonomic list

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Ostracoda
 Beyrichicopida - Aechminellidae
Cornigella immotipedata
Cornigella immotipedata Kesling 1953 ostracod
 Beyrichicopida - Drepanellidae
Boursella trilobata
 Beyrichicopida - Bolliidae
Xystinotus subnodatus, Tmemolophus margarotus
Xystinotus subnodatus Turner 1939 ostracod
Tmemolophus margarotus Kesling 1953 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Hollinidae
Subligaculum calcaratum
Subligaculum calcaratum Kesling 1953 ostracod