Black Shale fauna, Long Rapids Fm., Hudson Platform (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Ontario, Canada (51.0° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.2° S, 26.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Long Rapids Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• "Upper Dev."

Environment/lithology: marine; argillaceous siltstone and dolomite

• "mdst, in bedded minor arg, dolomite clay ironstone nodules, and dark grey to black no calc. bituminous, rust stained shale (in bedded, fissile, gray-green shale less common). BA5"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Sandford and F. Norris. 1975. Devonian strata of the Hudson Platform. Canadian Geological Survey Memoirs 379:1-124 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 633: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 06.04.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Sandford and Norris, 1975. Dev. strat of the Hudson Platform P and I: Strat. and econ geology. Can. Geol. Surv. Mem. 379. 124pp. Much of this fauna is not from black shale lithology- Also many conodonts were identified but are not listed here."
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Conodontophorida
 Conodontophorida -
Conodontophorida indet.
Conodontophorida indet.
conodont frags
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Palmatolepidae
Palmatolepis sp.
Palmatolepis sp. Müller 1956 conodont
2 species - originally entered as "Palmatolepsis sp."
Gnathostomata
  -
Osteichthyes indet.
Osteichthyes indet. bony fish
fish plate fragments - originally entered as "Osteichthyes sp."
Tentaculita
 Nowakiida - Nowakiidae
Nowakia sp.
Nowakia sp. Gurich 1896
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
? Styliolina sp.
? Styliolina sp. Karpinsky 1884
originally entered as "? Styliolina sp."
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp.
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Productella sp.
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp.
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia sp.
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860
 Rhynchonellida -
Rhynchonellida indet.
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Leiorhynchus sp.
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860
3 species
 Rhynchonellida - Pugnacidae
Pugnax sp.
 Rhynchonellida - Hypothyridinidae
Hypothyridina sp.
Hypothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
originally entered as "Hypothyridium sp."
 Terebratulida - Centronellidae
cf. Centronella sp.
cf. Centronella sp. Billings 1859
originally entered as "cf. Centronella sp."
Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Gephuroceratidae
Manticoceras sp.
Manticoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp.
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Prasinophytae
  -
Tasmanites sp.
Tasmanites sp. Newton 1875
a sporomorph