Pen Island 1, Hudson Bay Basin, Oz. elibata Z (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Manitoba, Canada (56.8° N, 90.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.3° S, 48.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ozarkodina elibata conodont zone, Severn River Formation, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)

• PJW: Was Aeronian - Telychian, but O. elibata zone is Hirnantian - early Rhuddanian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and dolomite

• fine-grained, thin-bedded fossiliferous limestone and some dolostone

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: S. Zhang and C. R. Barnes. 2007. Late Ordovician- Early Silurian conodont biostratigraphy and thermal maturity, Hudson Bay Basin. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 55(3):179-216 [E. Jarochowska/P. Nätscher]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177646: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.04.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida -
Ozarkodina elibata Pollock et al. 1970 conodont
Ozarkodina pirata Uyeno and Barnes 1983 conodont
 Prioniodontida -
Oulodus panuarensis Bischoff 1986 conodont
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus unicostatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont