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 | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Strophomenata | |
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928 | |
? Oepikina sp. Salmon 1942 | |
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Cyclospira sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862 | |
Rhynchotrema sp. Hall 1860 | |
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Plaesiomys sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Stenolaemata indet. Borg 1926 | |
Gastropoda | |
? Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Ostracoda | |
Leperditicopida sp. Scott 1961 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Bumastoides sp. Whittington 1954 trilobite | |
? Proetidae indet. Salter 1864 trilobite | |
Raymondites sp. Sinclair 1944 trilobite | |
Calyptaulax sp. Cooper 1930 trilobite | |
Ceraurinus sp. Barton 1913 trilobite
Ceraurus sp. Green 1832 trilobite | |
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Streptelasma indet. Hall 1847 horn coral |