MacDonald River Section Unit 14 232-332 ft: Richmondian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Plectambonitidae
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Plectambonites sericeus
Sowerby 1839
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Plectambonites sericeus glaber | ||||||||||
Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Furcitellidae
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? Leptaena nitens
(Billings 1860)
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recombined as Megamyonia nitens | ||||||||||
Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Strophomenidae
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Strophomena hecuba
Billings 1860
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recombined as Tetraphalerella hecuba | ||||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Rhynchotrematidae
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Rhynchotrema janeum
(Billings 1866)
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recombined as Hypsiptycha janea | ||||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Dalmanellidae
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Dalmanella meeki
(Miller 1875)
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= Onniella tricapitata
Jin and Zhan 2008
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Jin and Zhan 2008 | |||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Plaesiomyidae
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Dinorthis carletona
Twenhofel 1928
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misspelling Dinorthis (Pionorthis) carletona | ||||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Atrypida
- Anazygidae
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Catazyga anticostiensis
Billings 1862
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Zygospira recurvirostris
(Hall 1847)
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recombined as Anazyga recurvirostra | ||||||||||
Zygospira recurvirostris aequivalvis | ||||||||||
Tentaculitida
- Costatulitidae
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Cornulites richmondensis
(Miller 1874)
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recombined as Costatulites richmondensis | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pterineidae
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Pterinea prolifica
Billings 1866
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Bivalvia
- Pholadomyida
- Pholadomyidae
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Rhytimya emma
(Billings 1862)
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Rostroconchia
- Ribeirioida
- Ischyriniidae
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Ischyrina winchelli
(Billings 1866)
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original and current combination Ischyrinia winchelli | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Quebec | County: | Anticosti Island |
Coordinates: | 49.7° North, 63.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 23.1° South, 38.1° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 5 | ||
Key time interval: | Richmondian | Other zone: | Hercochitina crickmayi |
Age range of interval: | 449.50000 - 443.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Anticosti | Formation: | Vauréal | Member: | Homard |
Local section: | MacDonald River Section | Local bed: | 232-332 ft | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | nodular,blue "shale" |
Secondary lithology: | blue "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Nodular blue shale with occasional thin beds of hard blue limestone | |
Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Museum repositories: | GSC |
Metadata
Database number: | 173860 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2015-10-20 16:00:17 | Last modified: | 2015-10-22 21:01:45 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-10-20 16:00:17 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
11416. | W. H. Twenhofel. 1928. Geology of Anticosti Island. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 154(2132):1-351 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |
Secondary references:
56693 | J. Jin. 2012. Cincinnetina, a new Late Ordovician dalmanellid brachiopod from the Cincinnati type area, USA: implications for the evolution and palaeogeography of the epicontinental fauna of Laurentia. Palaeontology 55(1):205-228 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
44576 | J. Jin and R. Zhan. 2008. Late Ordovician Orthide and Billingsellide Brachiopods from Anticosti Island, Eastern Canada: Diversity Change Through Mass Extinction. National Research Council of Canada Monograph Series [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan] |