Delorme Formation (Whittaker Anticline, NWT, CAN) (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (62.5° N, 124.8° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° S, 44.4° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Delorme Formation, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• 180 m below the top of the formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate and shale

• buff to light brown weathered, thinly bedded limestones, dolomites and shales

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: B. D. E. Chatterton and D. G. Perry. 1977. Lochkovian Trilobites and Conodonts from Northwestern Canada. Journal of Paleontology 51(4):772-796 [A. Miller/K. Layou/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5744: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 18.11.1999, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
"Warburgella canadensis" = Warburgella (Rugulites) rugulosa canadensis Ormiston 1967 trilobite
Warburgella rugulosa canadensis, common
Conodontophorida
 Conodontophorida -
Conodontophorida indet.
indeterminate compound elements
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida -
Ozarkodina remcheidensis conodont
elements O1 (1), N (1), O. r. remescheidensis n. form beta element P (6?)
Ozarkodina sp. Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
O. sp. A