1-39. Thompson Creek (Ordovician of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (40.7° S, 172.5° E: paleocoordinates 12.8° N, 169.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Slaty Creek Formation, Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)

• Formation not state: I'm inferring Slaty Creek based on the local stratigraphy

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified limestone and fine-grained sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Slope or base of slope environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Pale grey-green siltstone and fine sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, assumed on the basis of age and figured specimens.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: bulk,

• COLLECTOR: Collected by E. O'Fee. REPOSITORY: New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS Science), Lower Hutt, New Zealand

Primary reference: Y. Y. Zhen, I. G. Percival, R. A. Cooper, J. E. SImes, and A. J. Wright. 2009. Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) conodonts from Thompson Creek, Nelson Province, New Zealand. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 37:25-53 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210509: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 02.06.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Only graptolite taxa listed. No other faunas mentioned in text, except rare phyllocarid crustaceans. IDENTIFICATIONS: Older collections re-examined by R.A. Cooper, otherwise lists collected and identified by R.A. Cooper.
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Conodonta
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Conodonta "gen. et sp. indet.", Costiconus ethingtoni, Costiconus cf. iniquus
Costiconus ethingtoni Fåhræus 1966 conodont
Costiconus cf. iniquus Viira 1974 conodont
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
"? Protopanderodus nogamii" = Panderodus nogami
"? Protopanderodus nogamii" = Panderodus nogami Lee 1975 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Protopanderodus cf. varicostatus
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Drepanoistodus costatus, Paroistodus originalis, Venoistodus balticus
Drepanoistodus costatus Abaimova 1971 conodont
Paroistodus originalis Sergeeva 1963 conodont
Venoistodus balticus Löfgren 2006 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Cornuodontidae
Cornuodus longibasis
Cornuodus longibasis Lindström 1955 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
Periodon macrodentatus
Periodon macrodentatus Graves and Ellison 1941 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
? Baltoniodus sp.
? Baltoniodus sp. Lindstrom 1971 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Oistodontidae
Oistodus cf. lanceolatus
Oistodus cf. lanceolatus Pander 1856 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Acodontidae
Triangulodus sp.
Triangulodus sp. van Wamel 1974 conodont