Philipsburg, St. Armand limestone: Cassinian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Protocycloceratidae
Protocycloceras philipsburgense Ulrich et al. 1944
Ulrich et al. 1944 26 specimens
Protocycloceras abnorme Ulrich et al. 1944
Ulrich et al. 1944 18 specimens
Protocycloceras xerxes (Billings 1865)
Ulrich et al. 1944 1 specimen
Protocycloceras geronticum Ulrich et al. 1944
Ulrich et al. 1944 9 specimens
Protocycloceras affine Ulrich et al 1944
Ulrich et al. 1944 14 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
Bassleroceras perseus (Billings 1865)
Kröger and Landing 2008 5 specimens
Cephalopoda - Tarphycerida - Tarphyceratidae
Pionoceras vokesi Ulrich et al. 1942
2 specimens
Pionoceras pomponium (Billing 1862)
4 specimens
Campbelloceras mcgerriglei Ulrich et al. 1942
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Tarphycerida - Trocholitidae
Trocholitoceras walcotti Hyatt 1894
3 specimens
Trocholitoceras philipsburgense Ulrich et al. 1942
2 specimens
Trocholitoceras juvenicostatum Ulrich et al. 1942
Trocholitoceras latum Ulrich et al. 1942
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Cyclostomiceratidae
Cyclostomiceras cassinense (Whitfield 1886)
Ulrich et al. 1943
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Quebec County:Missisquoi
Coordinates: 45.0° North, 73.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.0° South, 60.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Early/Lower Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 1-2
Key time interval:Cassinian Conodont zone: Oepikodus communis
Age range of interval:482.00000 - 470.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Naylor Ledge
Stratigraphy comments: St. Armand Formation is early Floian after Kröger & Landing, 2009
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC,USNM
Metadata
Database number:99224
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Modifier:B. Kröger Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-11-02 15:34:08 Last modified:2010-11-28 06:52:23
Access level:the public Released:2010-11-02 15:34:08
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:

29327 B. Kröger and E. Landing. 2008. Onset of the Ordovician cephalopod radiation - evidence from the Rochdale Formation (middle Early Ordovician, Stairsian)in eastern New York. Geological Magazine 145(4):490-520 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]
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]
16397 E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1944. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, longicones and summary. Geological Society of America Special Paper 58:1-226 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/B. Kröger]