Melville Peninsula, between Lailor Lakes and Mogg Bay, Bad Cache Rapids Fm: Wildernessian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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informal Isotelid sp.
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Brachiopoda indet.
Cuvier 1805
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Cephalopoda
- Endocerida
- Narthecoceratidae
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Narthecoceras sinclairi
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Cephalopoda
- Endocerida
- Endoceratidae
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Endoceras sp.
Hall 1847
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Cephalopoda
- Discosorida
- Westonoceratidae
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Winnipegoceras sp.
Foerste 1928
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Cephalopoda
- Oncocerida
- Oncoceratidae
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Digenuoceras heywoodi n. sp.
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Cephalopoda
- Actinocerida
- Actinoceratidae
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Kochoceras foordi
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Actinoceras ruedemanni
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| var. clarkei [entered as Actinoceras ruedemanni] | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Trochonematidae
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Trochonema sp.
Salter 1859
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Trochonema cf. umbilicatum
(Hall 1847)
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| recombined as Trochonema umbilicata | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Subulitidae
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Subulites (Fusispira) sp.
(Hall 1872)
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| original and current combination Fusispira | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Macluritidae
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Maclurites sp.
Le Sueur 1818
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Streptelasmatidae
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Grewingkia robusta
Whiteaves 1896
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Anthozoa
- Heliolitida
- Cyrtophyllidae
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Cyrtophyllum pattersoni
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Cyrtophyllum sp.
Lindström 1882
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Anthozoa
- Heliolitida
- Halysitidae
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Catenipora spp.
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Anthozoa
- Sarcinulida
- Syringophyllidae
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Calapoecia arctica
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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: | 69.2° North, 82.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.5° South, 42.0° 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,gray argillaceous "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: thin-bedded, finaly crystalline, light brown to grey, argillaceous limestone, at leas 15 ft exposed | |
| 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: | 26957 | ||
| Authorizer: | S. Holland | Enterer: | T. Hanson |
| Modifier: | S. Holland | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-11-09 23:04:12 | Last modified: | 2004-10-22 13:47:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-11-09 23:04:12 |
| 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] |