GSC 97705A, southeast of Clay Bank: Katian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea - Labechiida - Stromatoceriidae
Stromatocerium rugosum Hall 1847
Stromatoporoidea - Labechiida - Labechiidae
Labechia cf. prima Kapp and Stearn 1975
5 coenostea
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Ontario
Coordinates: 45.4° North, 76.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.2° South, 49.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Ordovician
Stage: Katian 10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 5
*Period:Middle Ordovician - Late/Upper Ordovician *Local age/stage:Trentonian
Key time interval: Katian
Age range of interval: 453 - 445.2 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ottawa
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Uppermost Chaumont-lowermost Rockland equivalent beds, Ottawa Formation (Bobcaygeon Formation, Ottawa Group, Williams et al., 1984) [now the Rockland Formation of the Ottawa Group; earliest Katian]
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Metadata
Database number:27231
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:T. Hanson
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-11-23 19:46:37 Last modified:2022-11-19 21:23:37
Access level:the public Released:2002-11-23 19:46:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

7507. T. E. Bolton. 1988. Stromatoporoidea from the Ordovician rocks of central and eastern Canada. Contributions to Canadian paleontology, Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 379:17-45 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]