Schooner Island: Tremadocian - Floian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Tarphycerida - Estonioceratidae
Pycnoceras calciferiforme Hyatt 1894
Aphetoceras boreale Hyatt 1894
Cephalopoda - Bisonocerida - Piloceratidae
Allopiloceras gracile
Ulrich et al. 1943
Cassinoceras cf. grande Ulrich and Foerste 1943
Ulrich et al. 1943
Cassinoceras triton (Billings 1865)
Ulrich et al. 1943
Cassinoceras cf. wortheni (Billings 1865)
Ulrich et al. 1943
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Newfoundland and Labrador
Coordinates: 51.6° North, 55.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.5° South, 48.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Early Ordovician
Stage: Tremadocian - Floian 10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 1 - Ordovician 2
Key time interval: Tremadocian - Floian
Age range of interval: 485.4 - 470 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:St. George
Stratigraphy comments: in Ulrich et al. 1943 stated as St. George beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,recrystallized,original aragonite,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:98440
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Modifier:B. Kröger Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-10-06 11:02:59 Last modified:2017-10-09 03:10:56
Access level:the public Released:2010-10-06 11:02:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
30180. E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1942. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, Part I: Nautilicones. Geological Society of America Special Papers 37:1-157 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/B. Kröger]

Secondary references:

13254 E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, and A.K. Miller. 1943. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods. Part II, Brevicones. Geological Society of America Special Papers 49:1-240 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Uhen]