Royal Creek II partial section at 73.2-76.6 m (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Yukon, Canada (64.8° N, 135.2° W: paleocoordinates 7.3° N, 46.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); cherty/siliceous limestone

• SEP environmental call based on given info. and regional context
• Overall: "...[section] represents a small enclave of deeper water shales and limestones surrounded by shallow water, massive, light-colored limestone...section consists of a more or less regular alternation of limestones, shaly limestones, and calcareous shale. The limestones are typically very dark and have a high organic content. Some lst beds contain 10-15% chert in the form of irregular masses, show minor brecciation, and may be partially silicfied in a spongy pattern. The shales vary in their calcareous content, so that at the extreme end, might well be defined as platy, shaly lsts. Fossils are for the most part common to abundant in the carbonates, and most are totally silicified..the shales contain a relatively small fauna of scattered graptolites and rare brachiopods..." [Lithology for this particular collection based on reading symbols off schematic section.]

Primary reference: A. C. Lenz. 1977. Yukon Territory. in A. Martinsson, ed. The Silurian-Devonian boundary (IUGS, Series A, Number 5). Schweizerbart'sche, Stuttgart. 272-280 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14004: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• "The shelly faunas...include on the conodonts, brachiopods and corals, the remaining faunas not having as yet been studied." [These other elements include trilobites, echinoderms, sponges, bivalves, and gastropods.]
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Areostrophiidae
Aesopomum sp. Havlicek 1965
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Plectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929
genus name in quotes
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Subrianidae
Conchidium sp. Oehlert 1887
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
Clorinda sp. Barrande 1879
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
"? Nanospira sp." = Lissatrypa
"? Nanospira sp." = Lissatrypa Twenhofel 1914
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Gracianella lissumbra Johnson and Boucot 1967
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
Atrypella cf. tenuis Kirk and Amsden 1952
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Delthyris sp. Dalman 1828
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Salopina sp. Boucot 1960
 Orthida - Dicoelosiidae
Dicoelosia sp. King 1850
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rhynchotreta sp. Hall 1879
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet. n. gen. Ehrenberg 1834
"n. gen. cf. Ptychophyllum"
 Stauriida - Mucophyllidae
"Pseudomphyma sp." = Pseudamplexus
"Pseudomphyma sp." = Pseudamplexus Weissermel 1897 horn coral
 Stauriida - Expressophyllidae
"? Expressophyllum sp." = Micula
"? Expressophyllum sp." = Micula Sytova 1952 Rugose coral
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Cystiphyllum sp. Lonsdale 1839 horn coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Helioplasma sp. Kettnerova 1933 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral