Locality 34, unit 5 (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (75.0° N, 95.9° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 7.2° N, 97.0° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aphelognathus grandis conodont zone, Irene Bay Formation (Cornwallis Group), Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• Unit 5

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, green shale and lithified, nodular, gray lime mudstone

• greyish green shale interbedded with minor discontinuous beds and concretions of medium gray, hard, dense sublithographic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Thorsteinsson in 1950-53; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: R. Thorsteinsson. 1958. Cornwallis and Little Cornwallis Islands, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada Memoirs 294:1-134 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 188769: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 18.09.2017

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

• Cephalopods identified by Walter C. Sweet and A. K. Miller, bryozoans by T. E. Bolton, corals, brachiopods, and arthropods by A. E. Wilson, graptolites and chordates by R. Thorsteinsson
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Angiospermae
 Caryophyllales - Polygonaceae
Persicaria sp.
unclassified
  -
Herbertella "sp. A", Herbertella "sp. B"
Artiopoda
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus groenlandicus, Illaenus sp., "Illaenus americanus" = Thaleops laurentiana
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
"Illaenus americanus" = Thaleops laurentiana Amati and Westrop 2004 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Bumastus "sp. A", Bumastus "sp. B"
Bumastus "sp. A" Murchison 1839 trilobite
Bumastus "sp. B" Murchison 1839 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
"? Homotelus sp." = Isotelus
"? Homotelus sp." = Isotelus Dekay 1824 trilobite
Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia sp.
Leperditia sp. Rouault 1851 ostracod
Cephalopoda
 Discosorida - Cyrtogomphoceratidae
Cyrtogomphoceras baffinense
 Multiceratoidea - Clinoceratidae
? Whitfieldoceras sp.
? Whitfieldoceras sp. Foerste 1932
 Multiceratoidea - Apsidoceratidae
"Charactocerina thorsteinssoni" = Charactoceras
"Charactocerina thorsteinssoni" = Charactoceras
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
"Maclurites septentrionalis" = Maclurites borealis
"Maclurites septentrionalis" = Maclurites borealis Wilson 1938 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Loxonema sp.
Loxonema sp. Phillips 1841 snail
 Murchisoniina - Trochonematidae
Trochonema coxi
Trochonema coxi Wilson 1938 snail
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Hormotoma sp.
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis insculpta
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Dinorthis sp.
Dinorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
"Rhynchotrema cf. capax" = Hiscobeccus capax
"Rhynchotrema cf. capax" = Hiscobeccus capax Conrad 1842 rhynchonellid brachiopod
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Oepikina sp., "Rafinesquina lata" = Oepikina lata
Oepikina sp. Salmon 1942
"Rafinesquina lata" = Oepikina lata Whiteaves 1896
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp.
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae
Glyptograptus "sp. A"
Glyptograptus "sp. A" Lapworth 1873 graptolite
Anthozoa
 Halysitida - Halysitidae
"Halysites cf. delicatulus" = Catenipora delicatulus, "Halysites agglomeratiformis" = Catenipora agglomeratiformis
"Halysites cf. delicatulus" = Catenipora delicatulus Wilson 1926 tabulate coral
"Halysites agglomeratiformis" = Catenipora agglomeratiformis Hall 1900 tabulate coral
 Lichenariida - Lyoporidae
Lyopora "sp. A aff. franklini"
Lyopora "sp. A aff. franklini" Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 tabulate coral
 Sarcinulida - Syringophyllidae
Calapoecia arctica, "Calapoecia canadensis" = Calapoecia coxi, Calapoecia anticostiensis
Calapoecia arctica tabulate coral
"Calapoecia canadensis" = Calapoecia coxi Bassler 1950 tabulate coral
Calapoecia anticostiensis Billings 1865 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
? Streptelasma arcticum
? Streptelasma arcticum Wilson 1931 horn coral
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Palaeophyllum sp.
Palaeophyllum sp. Billings 1858 horn coral
Chlorophyceae
  - Receptaculitidae
Receptaculites arcticus