Lake Simcoe Area, Submember C1A: Turinian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae
Tetradium fibratum Safford 1856
recombined as Prismostylus fibratum
unclassified
Tetradium cellulosum
Stromatoporoidea - Labechiida - Stromatoceriidae
Stromatocerium rugosum Hall 1847
Anthozoa - Sarcinulida - Billingsariidae
Foerstephyllum halli
Anthozoa - Lichenariida - Lichenariidae
Lichenaria sp. Winchell and Schuchert 1895
Lichenaria coboconkensis
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lambelasmatidae
Lambeophyllum profundum (Conrad 1843)
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Helicotomidae
Helicotoma planulata Salter 1859
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Hormotoma gracilis (Hall 1847)
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886
Cephalopoda - Actinocerida - Actinoceratidae
Actinoceras bigsbyi
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira recurvirostris (Hall 1847)
recombined as Anazyga recurvirostra
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Rhynchotrema increbescens (Hall 1847)
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena incurvata (Shephard 1838)
Opikina clara (Okulitch 1935)
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina trentonensis (Hall 1847)
Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae
Bathyurus sp. Billings 1859
Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Ceraurus pleurexanthemus Green 1832
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Ontario
Coordinates: 44.7° North, 78.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.9° South, 54.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Sandbian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4
*Period:Middle Ordovician *Epoch:Caradoc
*Local age/stage:Blackriveran
Key time interval:Turinian Conodont zone: Phragmodus undatus
Age range of interval:457.00000 - 453.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Simcoe Formation:Bobcaygeon Member:Coboconk
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Lower submember, lower faunal zone. This is now the Coboconk.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Gray and brownish gray fine- and medium-grained limestone, and some gray crystalline crinoidal limestone.
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Geology comments: Lithology indiciative of shallowing conditions on the shelf of a Middle Ordovician sea.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:26175
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:T. Hanson
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-10-07 13:42:29 Last modified:2018-04-11 20:48:52
Access level:the public Released:2002-10-07 13:42:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

7251. B. A. Liberty. 1969. Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario. Geological Survey of Canada Memoirs (355)1-201 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]