GSC Loc. O-102110. Southampton Island: Richmondian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Zanclodus levigatus
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Conodonta
- Belodellida
- Belodellidae
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Coelocerodontus trigonius
Ethington 1959
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2 elements | |||||||||
Conodonta
- Prioniodontida
- Balognathidae
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Amorphognathus ordovicicus
Bergström and Bergström 1996
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151 elements | |||||||||
Conodonta
- Prioniodontida
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Pseudooneotodus mitratus
(Moskalenko 1973)
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4 elements | |||||||||
Pseudooneotodus aff. beckmanni
(Bischoff and Sannemann 1958)
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5 elements | |||||||||
Oulodus sp.
Branson and Mehl 1933
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2 elements | |||||||||
Conodonta
- Panderodontida
- Panderodontidae
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? Panderodus ? clinatus
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22 elements | |||||||||
? Panderodus aff. liratus
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9 elements | |||||||||
? Pseudobelodina cf. dispansa
(Glenister 1957)
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9 elements | |||||||||
Pseudobelodina vulgaris
Sweet 1979
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1 element | |||||||||
Pseudobelodina v. vulgaris | ||||||||||
Belodina confluens
Sweet 1979
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26 elements | |||||||||
Plegagnathus sp.
Ethington and Furnish 1959
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2 elements | |||||||||
Conodonta
- Protopanderodontida
- Drepanoistodontidae
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Drepanoistodus suberectus
(Branson and Mehl 1933)
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55 elements | |||||||||
? Paroistodus sp.
Lindström 1971
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256 elements | |||||||||
Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Pseudogygites hudsoni
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Northwest Territories |
Coordinates: | 64.4° North, 84.5° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 5.1° South, 43.1° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
Stage: | Katian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 5 |
*Period: | Late/Upper Ordovician | *Local age/stage: | Middle Maysvillian - Late/Upper Maysvillian |
Key time interval: | Richmondian | Graptolite zone: | Amplexograptus inuiti |
Age range of interval: | 449.80000 - 446.00000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Boas River | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Was Maysvillian. However, Zhang (2017: CJES) notes that it is in the Amplexograptus inuiti zone. Zhang also notes that the Boas River is not a proper unit, and that these are just lower beds of the Foster Bay formation. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | black "shale" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Black, petroliferous, and thin-bedded "shale." | |
Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Geology comments: Environmental call by T. Hanson. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | chemical,sieve,field collection |
Minimum sieve size: | 0.075 |
Collection size: | 546 specimens |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Museum repositories: | GSC |
Collection method comments: Dissolved sample mass 475 grams. Trilobite identified by Ludvigsen (1979). Some graptolites from the Climacograptus manitoulinensis Zone identified by Riva (1974). |
Metadata
Database number: | 26090 | ||
Authorizer: | S. Holland | Enterer: | T. Hanson |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2002-10-02 19:55:25 | Last modified: | 2018-05-04 22:37:19 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-10-02 19:55:25 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
7224. | A. D. McCracken and G. S. Nowlan. 1989. Conodont paleontology and biostratigraphy of Ordovician carbonates and petroliferous carbonates on Southampton, Baffin, and Akpatok islands in the eastern Canadian Arctic. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 26(10):1880-1903 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson] |