Weston, near Toronto, Lorraine Fm. (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Ontario, Canada (43.7° N, 79.5° W: paleocoordinates 24.8° S, 53.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Lorraine Formation, Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)

• "Pholadomorpha zone = Lorraine Fm", in Foerste (1924)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. F. Foerste. 1924. Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 138(121):1-99 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173249: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Susan Scholze on 14.09.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
"Strophomena fluctuosa" = Nasutimena fluctuosa
"Strophomena fluctuosa" = Nasutimena fluctuosa Billings 1860
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Catazyga headi Billings 1862
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Clathrospira subconica Hall 1847 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Clidophorus planulatus Conrad 1847 pointed nut clam
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Byssonychia radiata Hall 1847 clam
 Unioni - Lyrodesmatidae
Lyrodesma poststriatum Emmons 1842 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Orthodesma nasutum Hall 1847 clam
 Modiomorphida - Allodesmatidae
Ischyrodonta unionoides Meek 1893 clam
Ischyrodonta unionoides westonensis
Tergomya
 Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
Cyrtolites ornatus Conrad 1838
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Sactoceratidae
Sactoceras westonense Foerste 1924