Airport Cove (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Manitoba, Canada (58.8° N, 94.1° W: paleocoordinates 7.1° S, 50.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Churchill River Group, Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)

• Late Katian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified dolomite

• Laminated, fine-grained dolostone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Manitoba Museum

Primary reference: D. M. Rudkin, G. A. Young, and G. S. Nowlan. 2008. The oldest horseshoe crab: a new xiphosurid from Late Ordovician Konservat-Lagerstätten deposits, Manitoba, Canada. Palaeontology 51:1-9 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 216761: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.12.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Xiphosura
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Lunataspis aurora n. gen. n. sp.
Lunataspis aurora n. gen. n. sp. Rudkin et al. 2008