Where: Ontario, Canada (50.4° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° S, 26.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Williams Island Formation, Givetian to Givetian (387.7 - 372.2 Ma)
• Uppermost Williams Island formation consists of 1.3 meters. Age is latest Givetian to earliest Frasnian.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; green, calcareous claystone
Primary reference: A. W. Norris, T. T. Uyeno, P. Sartenaer and P. G. Telford. 1992. Brachiopod and conodont faunas from the uppermost Williams Island Formation and lower Long Rapids Formation (Middle and Upper Devonian), Moose River Basin, northern Ontario. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 434:1-133 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40045: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 16.06.2004, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Tabulophyllum sp. Fenton and Fenton 1924 horn coral | |
Conodonta | |
"Polygnathus dubius" = Polygnathus dubia
"Polygnathus dubius" = Polygnathus dubia Hinde 1879 conodont | |
Palmatolepis sp. Müller 1956 conodont | |
Icriodus symmetricus Branson and Mehl 1934 conodont | |
unclassified | |
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Mucrospirifer williamsi n. sp.
Mucrospirifer williamsi n. sp. | |
Emanuella martisoni n. sp., ? Ladjia plicata n. sp.
Emanuella martisoni n. sp.
? Ladjia plicata n. sp. | |
Ladogioides pusilla n. sp.
Ladogioides pusilla n. sp. | |
Strophomenata | |
Eostrophalosia parksi n. sp.
Eostrophalosia parksi n. sp. | |
Nervostrophia ralla n. sp.
Nervostrophia ralla n. sp. | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Trilobita | |
Phacops sp. Emmrich 1839 trilobite |