Akpatok Island, Section 5, GSC Loc. C-147499: Shermanian - Gamachian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Conodonta
- Panderodontida
- Panderodontidae
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Panderodus gracilis
(Branson and Mehl 1933)
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163 elements | ||||||
? Pseudobelodina dispansa
(Glenister 1957)
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1 element | ||||||
Belodina confluens
Sweet 1979
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6 elements | ||||||
Conodonta
- Ozarkodinida
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Plectodina tenuis
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1 element | ||||||
Conodonta
- Belodellida
- Belodellidae
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Coelocerodontus trigonius
Ethington 1959
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9 elements | ||||||
Conodonta
- Prioniodontida
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Pseudooneotodus aff. beckmanni
(Bischoff and Sannemann 1958)
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1 element | ||||||
Pseudooneotodus mitratus
(Moskalenko 1973)
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2 elements | ||||||
Conodonta
- Protopanderodontida
- Drepanoistodontidae
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Drepanoistodus suberectus
(Branson and Mehl 1933)
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27 elements | ||||||
? Paroistodus sp.
Lindström 1971
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67 elements | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Northwest Territories |
Coordinates: | 60.4° North, 68.3° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 13.3° South, 39.7° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
*Period: | Late/Upper Ordovician | *Local age/stage: | Shermanian - Gamachian |
Key time interval: | Shermanian - Gamachian | ||
Age range of interval: | 460.90000 - 443.70000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | brown "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "[O]range-brown limestone beds beneath which is exposed about 35 m of fine-grained brown limestone, locally rich in organic material." | |
Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | all macrofossils |
Collection methods: | chemical,sieve,field collection |
Minimum sieve size: | 0.090 |
Collection size: | 277 specimens |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Museum repositories: | GSC |
Collection method comments: Some graptolites from Climacograptus manitoulinenensis Zone also included. 1530 g of dissolved material. |
Metadata
Database number: | 26101 | ||
Authorizer: | S. Holland | Enterer: | T. Hanson |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2002-10-03 21:34:27 | Last modified: | 2005-12-23 12:53:40 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-10-03 21:34:27 |
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] |