Where: Ontario, Canada (43.1° N, 79.3° W: paleocoordinates 23.8° S, 49.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Power Glen Formation, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)
• "lower Lland (and mid also)"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous sandstone and shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. E. Bolton. 1957. Silurian stratigraphy and palæontology of the Niagara escarpment in Ontario. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 289:1-145 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/J. Ju]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 173224: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.09.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Parmorthis eugeniensis" = Resserella
"Parmorthis eugeniensis" = Resserella | |
Stenolaemata | |
Helopora fragilis Hall 1851 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Ctenodonta elliptica" = Leda elliptica
"Ctenodonta elliptica" = Leda elliptica Goldfuss 1837 pointed nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
cf. Platyostoma hemispherica Hall 1843 snail |