Putnam Highland, Strata Correlating to Red River Fm, Selkirk Limestone: Edenian - Maysvillian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
- Rutoceratidae
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Trochoceras ? mccharlesi
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Cephalopoda
- Oncocerida
- Diestoceratidae
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Diestoceras (Poterioceras) nobile
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Cephalopoda
- Discosorida
- Cyrtogomphoceratidae
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Cyrtogomphoceras (Oncoceras) whiteavesi
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Cyrtogomphoceras (Oncoceras) magnum
Whiteaves 1890
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Kionoceratidae
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Kionoceras (Orthoceras) magnisulcatum
(Billings 1857)
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
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Garryoceras (Tripteroceras) semiplanatum
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Orthoceratidae
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Cycloceras (Orthoceras) selkirkense
Whiteaves 1892
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| recombined as Pleurorthoceras selkirkense | |||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Actinocerida
- Ormoceratidae
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Deiroceras (Actinoceras) python
(Billings 1857)
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Ormoceras (Actinoceras) allumettense
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Cephalopoda
- Actinocerida
- Actinoceratidae
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Actinoceras ? bigsbyi
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Cephalopoda
- Actinocerida
- Gonioceratidae
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Lambeoceras (Tripteroceras) lambi
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Cephalopoda
- Actinocerida
- Armenoceratidae
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Armenoceras (Actinoceras) richardsoni
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Cephalopoda
- Pseudorthocerida
- Spyroceratidae
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Spyroceras (Orthoceras) anellus
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Cephalopoda
- Endocerida
- Endoceratidae
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Cyclendoceras (Endoceras) subannulatum
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Cephalopoda
- Endocerida
- Narthecoceratidae
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Narthecoceras (Endoceras) crassisiphonatum
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Northwest Territories |
| Coordinates: | 65.3° North, 73.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 8.7° South, 40.9° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| Stage: | Katian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 5 |
| *Period: | Middle Ordovician - Late/Upper Ordovician | *Epoch: | Caradocian - Ashgillian | *Local age/stage: | Blackriveran - Richmondian |
| Key time interval: | Edenian - Maysvillian | Conodont zone: | Oulodus velicuspis - Plectodina robusta |
| Age range of interval: | 451.10000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Amadjuak | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Strata correlating with Red River Formation, Selkirk limestone of Manitoba. Zhang & Pell show that this is the upper part of the Amadjuak | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
| Geology comments: Environmental call by T. Hanson. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 26342 | ||
| Authorizer: | S. Holland | Enterer: | T. Hanson |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-10-13 15:57:04 | Last modified: | 2016-08-17 18:51:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-10-13 15:57:04 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7269. | L. M. Gould, A. F. Foerste, and R. C. Hussey. 1928. Contributions to the geology of Foxe Land, Baffin Island. In E. S. McCartney (ed.), Michigan University Contributions from the Museum of Geology 3:19-76 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning] |
Secondary references:
| 60152 | S. Zhang and J. Pell. 2014. Conodonts recovered from the carbonate xenoliths in the kimberlites confirm the Paleozoic cover on the Hall Peninsula, Nunavut. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 51:142-155 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |