Black Shale fauna, Long Rapids Fm., Hudson Platform (Devonian of Canada)
Where: Ontario, Canada (51.0° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.2° S, 26.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Long Rapids Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)
• "Upper Dev."
Environment/lithology: marine; argillaceous siltstone and dolomite
• "mdst, in bedded minor arg, dolomite clay ironstone nodules, and dark grey to black no calc. bituminous, rust stained shale (in bedded, fissile, gray-green shale less common). BA5"
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Sandford and F. Norris. 1975. Devonian strata of the Hudson Platform. Canadian Geological Survey Memoirs 379:1-124 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 633: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 06.04.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• "Sandford and Norris, 1975. Dev. strat of the Hudson Platform P and I: Strat. and econ geology. Can. Geol. Surv. Mem. 379. 124pp. Much of this fauna is not from black shale lithology- Also many conodonts were identified but are not listed here."
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Conodontophorida | |
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Conodonta | |
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Gnathostomata | |
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Tentaculita | |
Nowakia sp. Gurich 1896 | |
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Lingulata | |
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797 | |
Strophomenata | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860 | |
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949 | |
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Cephalopoda | |
Manticoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite | |
Anthozoa | |
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Prasinophytae | |
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