Bobcaygeon Fm., Carden Quarry, Table D12 (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Ontario, Canada (44.6° N, 79.0° W: paleocoordinates 24.8° S, 54.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bobcaygeon Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, argillaceous packstone and lithified mudstone

Collection methods: surface (float),

• sample is from an active quarry, so large blocks were surveyed from blast piles

Primary reference: S. E. Peters. 2003. Evenness, richness and the Cambrian-Paleozoic faunal transition in North America: an assemblage-level perspective. The University of Chicago 1-279 [S. Peters/S. Peters/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64479: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 09.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Asteroidea
  -
Asteroidea indet. de Blainville 1830 sea star
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
 Rhombifera - Pleurocystitidae
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
? Oepikina sp. Salmon 1942
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Cyclospiridae
Cyclospira sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Rhynchotrema sp. Hall 1860
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Plaesiomys sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Stenolaemata
  -
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
? Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Ostracoda
 Myodocopa -
Leperditicopida sp. Scott 1961 ostracod
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Bumastoides sp. Whittington 1954 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
? Proetidae indet. Salter 1864 trilobite
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Raymondites sp. Sinclair 1944 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Calyptaulax sp. Cooper 1930 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Ceraurinus sp. Barton 1913 trilobite
Ceraurus sp. Green 1832 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Streptelasma indet. Hall 1847 horn coral