LH1: Darriwilian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Conodonta - Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Parapanderodus quetus
7 elements
Parapanderodus striatus
1 element
Conodonta - Proconodontida - Fryxellodontidae
Dzikodus peavyi
7 elements
Conodonta - Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Drepanodus cf. giganteus
51 elements
Drepanodus cf. robustus Hadding 1913
7 elements
recombined as Protopanderodus robustus
Conodonta - Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Paroistodus originalis (Sergeeva 1963)
50 elements
Drepanoistodus spp.
20 elements
Drepanoistodus tableheadensis (Stouge 1984)
16 elements
original and current combination Drepanoistodus tablepointensis
Conodonta
Costiconus flexuodus
3 elements
Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Oistodontidae
Oistodus cf. lanceolatus Pander 1856
12 elements
Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Acodontidae
Nealeodus martinpointensis (Johnston and Barnes 2000)
2 elements
Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Chirognathidae
Oistodella pulchra
35 elements
Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Paracordylodontidae
Fahraeusodus marathonensis (Bradshaw 1969)
1 element
Conodonta - Prioniodontida
Erraticodon informal n. sp. A
1 element
Conodonta - Belodellida - Ansellidae
Ansella longicuspica Zhang 1998
8 elements
Conodonta - Ozarkodinida
Periodon macrodentatus (Graves and Ellison 1941)
517 elements
Conodonta
Apteracontiodus sp. Bauer 2010
8 elements
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Newfoundland
Coordinates: 50.0° North, 57.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.1° South, 41.9° West
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Middle Ordovician
Stage:Darriwilian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 3
Key time interval:Darriwilian Conodont zone: Periodon macrodentatus
Age range of interval:467.30000 - 458.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Cow Head Formation:Shallow Bay Member:Factory Cove
Local section:Lower Head Local bed:0.9 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Bed 15
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:peloidal,gray lithified grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: The gastropods occur in light gray grainstone composed of well-sorted, sand-sized fragments of calcareous algae, micritized echinoderms, and peloids suggesting deposition in a shallow, high-energy environment.
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,some macrofossils,difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Metadata
Database number:210487
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2020-06-01 21:26:28 Last modified:2020-06-01 23:04:33
Access level:the public Released:2020-06-01 21:26:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

72582. S. Stouge. 2012. Middle Ordovician (late Dapingian–Darriwilian) conodonts from the Cow Head Group and Lower Head Formation, western Newfoundland, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 49:59-90 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]