Port au Choix: Cassinian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Bisonocerida
- Piloceratidae
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Cassinoceras wortheni
(Billings 1865)
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| Piloceras wortheni | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Coordinates: | 50.7° North, 57.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.6° South, 46.7° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Early/Lower Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 1-2 | ||
| Key time interval: | Cassinian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 482.00000 - 470.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | St. George | Formation: | Catoche | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Logan's division H. PJW: This should be Catoche | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified calcareous "limestone" |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,original aragonite,replaced with calcite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 189277 | ||
| Authorizer: | B. Kröger | Enterer: | B. Kröger |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | ||
| Created: | 2017-10-09 03:22:58 | Last modified: | 2024-02-02 22:36:20 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-10-09 03:22:58 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13254. | E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, and A.K. Miller. 1943. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods. Part II, Brevicones. Geological Society of America Special Papers 49:1-240 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Uhen] |