GSC C-84579, southwest of Goober Lake (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Northwest Terrorities, Canada (64.7° N, 130.8° W: paleocoordinates 5.4° N, 60.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Adelograptus antiquus graptolite zone, Duo Lake Formation, Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• Early Ordovician, Tremadoc, Adelograptus antiquus Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); silty, calcareous limestone

• "silty ls with intercalated graptolitic calcareous sh and minor silty dolostone. basin facies. geosynclinal"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. P. Cecile. 1982. The Lower Paleozoic Misty Creek Embayment, Selwyn Basin, Yukon and Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 335:1-78 [M. Uhen/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 415: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 03.12.1998

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Cecile 1982"
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Malacostraca
 Archaeostraca - Caryocarididae
Caryocaris sp.
Caryocaris sp. Salter 1863
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Phyllograptidae
Tetragraptus sp.
Tetragraptus sp. Salter 1863 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Clonograptus sp.
Clonograptus sp. Nicholson 1873 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Anisograptidae
Adelograptus sp., ? Kiaerograptus sp.
Adelograptus sp. Bulman 1941 graptolite
? Kiaerograptus sp. graptolite
Kiaerograptus? cf. Didymograptus pritchardi