Cape-Manning Section 2, CM2C-21 (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Cape Manning, Canada (75.4° N, 94.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.6° N, 34.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aspelundia expansa conodont zone, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: slope; black, calcareous shale and cherty/siliceous lime mudstone

• Interbedded calcareous shale and lime mudstone: mudstones thin-bedded, cherty, concretions common; both samples partly from concretions.

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: S. Zhang, D. Jowett, and C. Barnes. 2017. Hirnantian (Ordovician) through Wenlock (Silurian) conodont biostratigraphy, bioevents, and integration with graptolite biozones, Cape Phillips Formation slope facies, Cornwallis Island, Canadian Arctic Islands. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 54(9):936-960 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 211162: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 25.06.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Walliserodus curvatus
Walliserodus curvatus Branson and Branson 1947 conodont
 Belodellida - Dapsilodontidae
Dapsilodus obliquicostatus
Dapsilodus obliquicostatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Prioniodinidae
"Aspelundia expansa" = Pseudolonchodina expansa
"Aspelundia expansa" = Pseudolonchodina expansa Armstrong 1990 conodont