Southwestern District of Mackenzie, Prairie Creek (C-640): Wildernessian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Krausella inaequalis
? Krausella cf. acuta
Ostracoda - Hollinocopida - Tvaerenellidae
Diplopsis socialis Levinson 1961
Ostracoda - Hollinocopida - Tetradellidae
Ceratopsis quadrifida
? Tetradella sp. Ulrich 1890
Ostracoda - Leperditellocopida - Schmidtellidae
Schmidtella affinis
Ostracoda - Leperditellocopida - Aparchitidae
"Aparchites" fimbriatus
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Northwest Territories County:District of Mackenzie
Coordinates: 61.5° North, 124.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.4° North, 58.0° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4-5
Key time interval:Wildernessian
Age range of interval:457.00000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Whittaker
Local section:Section C Local bed:640 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: Environmental call by T. Hanson.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils
Collection methods:chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Metadata
Database number:102244
Authorizer:M. Hopkins Enterer:M. Hopkins
Modifier:M. Hopkins Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-01-12 05:33:29 Last modified:2011-02-07 19:33:25
Access level:the public Released:2011-01-12 05:33:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

7191. M. J. Copeland. 1974. Middle Ordovician ostracoda from southwestern District of Mackenzie. Canada Geological Survey Bulletin (244)1-55 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]