Whittaker Anticline, Northwest Canada (Devonian to of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (62.5° N, 124.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.2° S, 38.3° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Funeral Formation, Eifelian to Eifelian (393.3 - 391.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: argillaceous limestone

• lithology described as limestone

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: "All specimens found are small"

Primary reference: B. D. E. Chatterton and D. G. Perry. 1978. An early Eifelian invertebrate faunule, Whittaker Anticline, northwestern Canada. Journal of Paleontology 52(1):28-39 [M. Patzkowsky/M. Patzkowsky/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3949: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Mark Patzkowsky on 12.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Pisces
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"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish
fish fragments
Conodonta
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Conodonta indet.
Conodonta indet. Pander 1856 conodont
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Spirorbis sp.
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800
Tentaculita
 Homoctenida - Homoctenidae
Homoctenus caldwelli n. sp.
Homoctenus caldwelli n. sp.
originally entered as "Homoctenus caldwelli n. sp."
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Areostrophiidae
Eoschuchertella sp.
 Productida - Productellidae
Spinulicosta prima n. sp.
Spinulicosta prima n. sp.
originally entered as "Spinulicosta prima n. sp."
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
? Ambothyris sp.
? Ambothyris sp. George 1931
originally entered as "Ambothyris? sp."
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
"? Ogilviella sp." = Rhynchogilviella
"? Ogilviella sp." = Rhynchogilviella Ceccolini and Cianferoni 2023
originally entered as "Ogilviella? sp."
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites sp.
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
12 species listed as pers. comm.
Trilobita
 Proetida - Otarionidae
"Otarion (Otarionella) sp." = Otarionella
"Otarion (Otarionella) sp." = Otarionella Weyber 1965 trilobite
originally entered as "Otarion (Otarionella) sp."
Hexactinellida
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Hexactinellida indet.
Hexactinellida indet. Schmidt 1870 glass sponge
spicules - originally entered as "Hexactinellida sp."