Where: Ontario, Canada (43.7° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 27.7° S, 43.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Guelph Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; dolomite
•SEP: the Guelph Formation is a very well known and intensively studied unit for petroleum. It is known among petroleum geologists as a "dolomitic reef" and has been the target of drilling in Ontario and the Michigan basin for many years. There is evidence for subaerial exposure during the development of the these "reefal" buildups that fringe the Michigan basin (Charbonneau, 1990)
Primary reference: R. E. Plotnick. 1999. Habitat of Llandoverian-Lochkovian eurypterids. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 106-136 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14196: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 23.05.2002, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge | |
Scyphozoa | |
Conulariida indet. Miller and Gurley 1896 jellyfish | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
unclassified | |
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Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Euchelicerata | |
Tylopterella boylei eurypterid | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
Strophonella sp. Hall 1879 | |
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Protomegastrophia sp. Caster 1939 | |
Amphistrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
"Coolinia sp." = Fardenia (Coolinia)
"Coolinia sp." = Fardenia (Coolinia) Bancroft 1949 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Rhynchotreta sp. Hall 1879 | |
Stegerhynchus sp. Foerste 1909 | |
Camerella sp. Billings 1859 | |
Rhipidium sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Whitfieldella sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
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Homoeospira sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913 | |
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946 | |
Dalejina sp. Havlicek 1953 | |
Platystrophia sp. King 1850 | |
Dolerorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Craniata | |
Monomerella sp. Billings 1872
Trimerella sp. Billings 1862 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
"Murchisonia vitellia n. sp." = Kirkospira vitellia1
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"Murchisonia bivittata n. sp." = Ptychocaulus bivittata3, "Murchisonia longispira n. sp." = Coelocaulus longispira3, "Murchisonia turritiformis" = Coelocaulus turritiformis4
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"Hormotoma whiteavesi" = Michelia whiteavesi2, "Murchisonia macrospira" = Cyrtostropha macrospira4, "Murchisonia loganii" = Cyrtostropha macrospira3, Murchisonia mylitta n. sp.1
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"Pleurotomaria occidens" = Phanerotrema occidens3
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"Pleurotomaria deiopei n. sp." = Prosolarium deiopei1
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"Murchisonia soluta" = Loxoplocus soluta4
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"Trochonema inornatum n. sp." = Pachystrophia inornatum4
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"Pycnomphalus solarioides" = Pycnomphalus obesus5
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"Pleurotomaria valeria" = Euomphalopterus valeria1, "Pleurotomaria velaris n. sp." = Euomphalopterus velaris5, "Pleurotomaria elora n. sp." = Spinicharybdis elora1
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"Murchisonia hercynia n. sp." = Pseudotectus comes1
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"Tremanotus alpheus" = Tremanotus angustata4
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