Prince of Wales Island (GSC C26915): Lochkovian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Iridostrophia thorsteinssoni
208 specimens
original and current combination Iridistrophia
Strophomenata - Strophomenida
Asymmetrochonetes spinalonga
469 specimens
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Barbaestrophia sp.
1 specimen
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Amphistrophiidae
Mesodouvillina sp. Williams 1950
58 specimens
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
Cymostrophia sp. Caster 1939
12 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Ancillotoechia magnaplica
1247 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Machaerariidae
Machaeraria obesa Smith 1980
7 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria protonevadensis
285 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Draboviidae
Salopina submurifer
3 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Protocortezorthis quadiforma
114 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
8 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858
3928 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Gypidula dyerensis
53 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
Undispirifer laeviplicatus
93 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida
Notoparmella sp. Johnson 1973
1 specimen
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860
5 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
57 specimens
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
Murchisonia (Murchisonia) sp. d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841
16 specimens
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Coelocaulus sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888
1 specimen
? Catazone sp. Perner 1907
49 specimens
spelled with current rank as Catazone
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Odontomaria linsleyi Rohr and Smith 1978
2 specimens
recombined as Barocospira linsleyi
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Lytospira triquestrus (Lindström 1884)
6 specimens
recombined as Pachystrophia triquestra
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Oriostomatidae
? Gyronema thorsteinssoni Rohr and Smith 1978
21 specimens
recombined as Oriostoma thorsteinssoni
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
? Kodymites sp. Horný 1962
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Cyrtoneritida - Orthonychiidae
Platyceras (Platyceras) daschi Rohr and Smith 1978
9 specimens
recombined as Orthonychia daschi
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Northwest Territories
Coordinates: 73.4° North, 101.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.0° South, 30.5° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Early/Lower Devonian
Stage:Lochkovian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 1
*Period:Early/Lower Devonian
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Lochkovian
Key time interval:Lochkovian
Age range of interval:419.20000 - 410.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Peel Sound Formation equivalent beds.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified argillaceous,silty lime mudstone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: Thin bedded, silty, argillaceous lime mudstone containing argillaceous seams.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Taxonomic list comments:List is gastropods and brachiopods. Fauna also present include "trilobites, pelecypods, auloproid corals, colonial corals, fish, rare to common crinoids, and orthocone cephalopods."
Metadata
Database number:3739
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-09 12:48:04 Last modified:2001-08-16 13:10:37
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
237. D. M. Rohr and R. E. Smith. 1978. Lower Devonian Gastropoda from the Canadian Arctic Islands. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 15:1228-1241 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]