Where: Ontario, Canada (44.0° N, 77.5° W: paleocoordinates 25.9° S, 54.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cobourg Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified packstone and lithified, gray, calcareous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (float),
• collection taken from an active stone quarry; large blocks counted in the field
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 64482: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 09.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lingulata | |
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Craniata | |
? Craniops sp. Hall 1859 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchotrema sp. Hall 1860 | |
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862 | |
Cyclospira sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
? Plaesiomys sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Strophomenata | |
Strophomenida sp. Opik 1934 | |
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Oepikina sp. Salmon 1942 | |
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928 | |
Trilobita | |
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite | |
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite | |
Ceraurus sp. Green 1832 trilobite | |
Demospongia | |
"Demospongia indet." = Demospongiae
"Demospongia indet." = Demospongiae Sollas 1875 demosponge |