Shamattawa Limestone Cephalopods, Hudson Bay Region (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (52.0° N, 102.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° S, 61.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shamattawa Limestone Formation, Middle Ordovician to Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 443.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. K. Miller, W. Youngquist, and C. Collinson. 1954. Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island. Geological Society of America Memoir 62:1-234 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24164: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 01.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Actinocerida - Actinoceratidae
Actinoceras sp., Kochoceras sp.
Actinoceras sp. Bronn 1837
Kochoceras sp. Troedsson 1926
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Ephippiorthoceras sp.
Ephippiorthoceras sp. Foerste 1924
 Orthocerida - Tripteroceratidae
Allumettoceras sp.
Allumettoceras sp. Foerste 1926
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Endoceras sp.
Endoceras sp. Hall 1847
 Pseudorthocerida - Spyroceratidae
Spyroceras sp.
Spyroceras sp. Hyatt 1884
 Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae
Diestoceras sp.
Diestoceras sp. Foerste 1924
 Discosorida - Cyrtogomphoceratidae
Cyrtogomphoceras sp.
Cyrtogomphoceras sp. Foerste 1924
 Discosorida - Westonoceratidae
Westonoceras sp.
Westonoceras sp. Foerste 1924