Where: Ontario, Canada (43.7° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 27.7° S, 43.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Guelph Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; dolomite
•SEP: the Guelph Formation is a very well known and intensively studied unit for petroleum. It is known among petroleum geologists as a "dolomitic reef" and has been the target of drilling in Ontario and the Michigan basin for many years. There is evidence for subaerial exposure during the development of the these "reefal" buildups that fringe the Michigan basin (Charbonneau, 1990)
Primary reference: R. E. Plotnick. 1999. Habitat of Llandoverian-Lochkovian eurypterids. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 106-136 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14196: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 23.05.2002, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
"Trochonema inornatum n. sp." = Pachystrophia inornatum4
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"Pleurotomaria valeria" = Euomphalopterus valeria1, "Pleurotomaria velaris n. sp." = Euomphalopterus velaris5, "Pleurotomaria elora n. sp." = Spinicharybdis elora1
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"Murchisonia hercynia n. sp." = Pseudotectus comes1
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"Pycnomphalus solarioides" = Pycnomphalus obesus5
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"Tremanotus alpheus" = Tremanotus angustata4
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"Murchisonia soluta" = Loxoplocus soluta4
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"Pleurotomaria occidens" = Phanerotrema occidens3
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"Pleurotomaria deiopei n. sp." = Prosolarium deiopei1
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"Murchisonia vitellia n. sp." = Kirkospira vitellia1
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"Murchisonia longispira n. sp." = Coelocaulus longispira3, "Murchisonia turritiformis" = Coelocaulus turritiformis4, "Murchisonia bivittata n. sp." = Ptychocaulus bivittata3
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Murchisonia mylitta n. sp.1, "Murchisonia macrospira" = Cyrtostropha macrospira4, "Murchisonia loganii" = Cyrtostropha macrospira3, "Hormotoma whiteavesi" = Michelia whiteavesi2
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Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Craniata | |
Trimerella sp. Billings 1862
Monomerella sp. Billings 1872 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Camerella sp. Billings 1859 | |
Rhipidium sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Rhynchotreta sp. Hall 1879 | |
Stegerhynchus sp. Foerste 1909 | |
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946 | |
Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913 | |
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828 | |
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Whitfieldella sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Homoeospira sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Dolerorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Platystrophia sp. King 1850 | |
Dalejina sp. Havlicek 1953 | |
Strophomenata | |
Protomegastrophia sp. Caster 1939 | |
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Strophonella sp. Hall 1879 | |
Amphistrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
"Coolinia sp." = Fardenia (Coolinia)
"Coolinia sp." = Fardenia (Coolinia) Bancroft 1949 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Euchelicerata | |
Tylopterella boylei eurypterid | |
Scyphozoa | |
Conulariida indet. Miller and Gurley 1896 jellyfish | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge |