District of Mackenzie, Esbataottine Mountain Bathyurus Biofacies (P-1130): Chazyan, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Calyptaulax sp. Cooper 1930
Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae
Bathyurus sp. Billings 1859
Trilobita - Lichida - Lichidae
Amphilichas sp. Raymond 1905
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Leperditellidae
Leperditella cf. germana
Copeland 1974
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Camerellidae
Camerella sp. Billings 1859
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Northwest Territories County:District of Mackenzie
Coordinates: 61.7° North, 125.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.6° North, 59.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Middle Ordovician
Stage:Darriwilian
*Period:Middle Ordovician *Local age/stage:Whiterockian - Chazyan
Key time interval:Chazyan
Age range of interval:468.10000 - 460.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sunblood
Local section:Section P Local bed:1130 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,some macrofossils,species names
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Also includes ostracods, gastropods, and bryozoans.
Metadata
Also known as:P 1130, GSC loc. no. C-26326
Database number:25928
Authorizer:S. Holland, M. Hopkins Enterer:T. Hanson, M. Hopkins
Modifier:M. Hopkins Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-09-28 18:05:43 Last modified:2011-02-08 10:01:41
Access level:the public Released:2002-09-28 18:05:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

7069. B. D. E. Chatterton and R. Ludvigsen. 1976. Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites from the South Nahanni River Area, District of Mackenzie, Canada. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 154(1-3):1-106 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]

Secondary references:

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]