Clay cliff, Waynesville Fm.: Richmondian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus gigas (Dekay 1824)
recombined as Asaphus gigas
Craniata - Craniida - Craniidae
Crania scabiosa Hall 1866
recombined as Petrocrania scabiosa
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena planumbona (Hall 1847)
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina alternata (Conrad 1838)
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Platystrophia clarksvillensis Foerste 1910
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Pterina (Caritodens) demissa (Conrad 1842)
recombined as Pterinea demissa
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Opisthoptera fissicosta (Meek 1873)
synonym of Opisthoptera casei
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Cyclonema bilix (Conrad 1842)
Cyclonema bilix conicum
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira bowdeni (Safford 1869)
recombined as Paupospira bowdeni
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Ontario
Coordinates: 45.7° North, 81.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:21.6° South, 52.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Richmondian
Age range of interval:449.50000 - 443.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Waynesville
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:173013
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:S. Scholze
Modifier:S. Scholze Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-09-08 04:20:21 Last modified:2015-09-08 04:24:58
Access level:the public Released:2015-09-08 04:20:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11615. A. F. Foerste. 1924. Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 138(121):1-99 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]