Melville Peninsula, south shore of Roche Bay, Bad Cache Rapids Formation: Wildernessian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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informal Strophomenid indet.
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Anthozoa
- Auloporida
- Tetraporellidae
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Labyrinthites (Labyrinthites) chidlensis
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Anthozoa
- Heliolitida
- Halysitidae
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Catenipora spp.
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Streptelasmatidae
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Grewingkia sp.
Dybowski 1873
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unclassified
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Echinodermata indet.
Klein 1754
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| columnal debris | ||||||||||
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Stenolaemata
- Trepostomida
- Amplexoporidae
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Amplexopora arctica
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unclassified
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Brachiopoda indet.
Cuvier 1805
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| lingulid fragments | ||||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Sowerbyellidae
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Sowerbyella sp.
Jones 1928
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Syndielasmatidae
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? Sowerbyites sp.
Teichert 1937
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Strophomenidae
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Strophomena undulosa
Roy 1941
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| recombined as Nasutimena undulosa | ||||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Furcitellidae
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Oepikina sp.
(Salmon 1942)
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| original and current combination Opikina | ||||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Rafinesquinidae
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Rafinesquina sp.
Hall and Clarke 1892
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Proteoceratidae
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Gorbyoceras baffinense
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Ephippiorthoceras compressum
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Cephalopoda
- Actinocerida
- Actinoceratidae
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Actinoceras ruedemanni
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| Actinoceras ruedemanni var. clarkei [entered as Actinoceras ruedemanni] | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Endocerida
- Endoceratidae
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Cyclendoceras sp.
Grabau and Shimer 1910
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Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Macluritidae
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Maclurites sp.
Le Sueur 1818
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Trochonematidae
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Trochonema sp.
Salter 1859
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Ostracoda
- Leperditicopida
- Leperditiidae
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Eoleperditia sp.
Swartz 1949
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenidae
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Illaenus cf. groenlandicus
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Chlorophyceae
- Receptaculitidae
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Receptaculites sp.
Defrance 1827
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Northwest Territories | County: | District of Franklin |
| Coordinates: | 68.4° North, 82.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.2° South, 42.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 4-5 | ||
| *Period: | Middle Ordovician - Late/Upper Ordovician | *Local age/stage: | Wildernessian - Barneveldian |
| Key time interval: | Wildernessian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 457.00000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Bad Cache Rapids |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | brown argillaceous "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: massive- to thick-bedded, fossiliferous limestone, upper face, at least 25 ft. thick; thin- to thick-bedded, sublithographic to finely crystalline, brown fossiliferous limestone, middle face, at least 30 ft thick. | |
| Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 26953 | ||
| Authorizer: | S. Holland | Enterer: | T. Hanson |
| Modifier: | S. Holland | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-11-09 21:33:29 | Last modified: | 2004-10-22 13:46:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-11-09 21:33:29 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7452. | T. E. Bolton. 1977. Ordovician megafauna, Melville Peninsula, southeastern District of Franklin. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 269:23-75 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/M. Uhen] |