GSC C-78639. Advance Mountain (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.0° N, 123.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.0° N, 63.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belodina compressa conodont zone, Lower Member (Advance Formation), Turinian (457.3 - 453.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, dolomitic, argillaceous limestone and lithified, calcareous shale

• environmental interpretation from paper, but this is almost certainly incorrect and no evidence is presented to suggest a slope setting

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: B. S. Norford. 1996. Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Advance Formation, a new upper Middle Ordovician unit, northern Rocky Mountains, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 491:5-19 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192196: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.03.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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 Hyolithelminthida -
Inarticulata
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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) alternata1 Butts 1942
[Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) alternara]
 Strophomenida - Leptestiidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Paucicrura rogata1 Sardeson 1892
 Orthida - Paurorthidae
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis assimilis1 Cooper 1956
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Bivalvia
 Unioni - Lyrodesmatidae
Lyrodesma sp. Conrad 1841 clam
 Nuculida -
Nuculoidea indet.2 Gray 1824 clam
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Conodonta
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Drepanoistodus sp. Lindstrom 1971 conodont
Paroistodus sp. Lindström 1971 conodont
 Prioniodontida -
Phragmodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
? Phragmodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont