Road River Fm. (L. Devonian) (Devonian to of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories and Yukon, Canada (62.6° N, 125.0° W: paleocoordinates 2.5° S, 43.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Road River Formation, Lochkovian to Lochkovian (419.2 - 407.6 Ma)

• "Gedinnian to late Siegenian"

Environment/lithology: basinal (); black, argillaceous siltstone and shale

• "Black shale and thin dark argillaceous sltst. basinal. BA6"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. C. Lenz, D. J. Glass, and A. E. H. Pedder. 1972. Lower and Middle Paleozoic Sediments and Paleontology of Royal Creek and Peel River, Yukon, and Powell Creek, NWT: Excursion A-14. 24th International Geological Congress [M. Uhen/J. Ju/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 592: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 24.01.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Lenz and Pedder, 1972. Lenz, 1976"
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Monograptus sp. graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Cryptograptidae
Linograptus sp. graptolite
Trilobita
 Phacopida -
? Phacopida indet. Salter 1864 trilobite
trilobites, others - originally entered as "? Phacopida indet."
 Proetida -
Proetida indet. Fortey and Owens 1975 trilobite
trilobites
 Proetida - Proetidae
Warburgella sp. Reed 1931 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida -
Strophomenida indet. Opik 1934
brachiopods (strophomenids?)
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Praecardiidae
Praecardiorda (Buchiola) indet. Grimm 1998 clam
thin shelled bivalves (Buchiola?)
Tentaculita
 Nowakiida - Nowakiidae
Nowakia sp. Gurich 1896
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
sponges (hexactinellids?)