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
Plectambonites sericeus Sowerby 1839
Plectambonites sericeus glaber
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
? Leptaena nitens (Billings 1860)
recombined as Megamyonia nitens
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena hecuba Billings 1860
recombined as Tetraphalerella hecuba
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Rhynchotrema janeum (Billings 1866)
recombined as Hypsiptycha janea
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella meeki (Miller 1875)
    = Onniella tricapitata Jin and Zhan 2008
Jin and Zhan 2008
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Dinorthis carletona Twenhofel 1928
misspelling Dinorthis (Pionorthis) carletona
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Catazyga anticostiensis Billings 1862
Zygospira recurvirostris (Hall 1847)
recombined as Anazyga recurvirostra
Zygospira recurvirostris aequivalvis
Tentaculitida - Costatulitidae
Cornulites richmondensis (Miller 1874)
recombined as Costatulites richmondensis
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Pterinea prolifica Billings 1866
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Rhytimya emma (Billings 1862)
Rostroconchia - Ribeirioida - Ischyriniidae
Ischyrina winchelli (Billings 1866)
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]