Where: Ontario, Canada (44.0° N, 71.2° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° S, 49.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Verulam Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, gray, calcareous mudstone and lithified, argillaceous packstone
Collection methods: surface (float),
• this is a quarry sample from large blocks blasted from wall
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 64561: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 10.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite | |
Ceraurus sp. Green 1832 trilobite | |
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite | |
Calyptaulax sp. Cooper 1930 trilobite | |
Craniata | |
? Craniops sp. Hall 1859 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
Catazyga sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
? Hebertella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Platystrophia sp. King 1850 | |
Rhynchotrema sp. Hall 1860 | |
Strophomenata | |
Oepikina sp. Salmon 1942 | |
? Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
? Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928 | |
Lingulata | |
? Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Gastropoda | |
Archaeogastropoda indet. Thiele 1925 snail | |
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail |