East flank of Whittaker Anticline. 49-52 m beneath top of formation. (Devonian of Canada)

Also known as Delorme Formation (Whittaker Anticline, NWT, CAN)

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)

• 52 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

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 5762: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 20.11.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodontophorida
 Conodontophorida -
Conodontophorida indet.
indeterminate compound elements
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida -
"Ozarkodina remscheidensis" = Nicollidina remscheidensis
"Ozarkodina remscheidensis" = Nicollidina remscheidensis Ziegler 1960 conodont
element O1(8), N(8), A1(9), A2(3), A3(1), O. r. remscheidensis n. form gamma element P (66)
 Prioniodontida - Icriodontidae
Icriodus hadnagyi conodont
element I(35), S(173)
Conodontophorida
 Hibbardellacea - Hibbardellidae
Delotaxis sp. Klapper and Philip 1971
elements O, N, B1, B2, B3
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Warburgella (Anambon) mackenziensis n. sp. Chatterton and Perry 1977 trilobite
abundant