Emanuella-Pelecypod Community, Headless Fm. (Devonian to of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (70.0° N, 95.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.2° S, 24.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Headless Formation, Eifelian to Eifelian (393.3 - 382.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: basinal (); calcareous limestone and shale

• "calcareous shales, platy- intt. w/shaley ls. basinal, lower slope- low energy, soft mud substrate. BA5"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. P. A. Noble and R. D. Ferguson. 1971. Facies and Faunal Relations at Edge of Early Mid-Devonian Carbonate Shelf South Nahanni River Area, NWT. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 19(3):570-588 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 622: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 06.04.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Noble and Ferguson, 1971"
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Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
ostracodes
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Dechenella sp.
Dechenella sp. Kayser 1880 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida -
Spiriferida indet.
Spiriferida indet. Waagen 1883
spiriferids
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Emanuella sp.
Emanuella sp. Grabau 1923
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida -
Strophomenida indet.
Strophomenida indet. Opik 1934
other brachs
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Paracyclas sp.
Paracyclas sp. Hall 1843 clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp.
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam