Quadrithyris Zone Brachiopods, Prince of Wales Is., GSC loc. C8223: Lochkovian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Scolecodonta indet.
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Conodonta
- Ozarkodinida
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Ozarkodina remscheidensis
Ziegler 1960
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| recombined as Nicollidina remscheidensis | ||||||||||
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Ozarkodina sp.
Branson and Mehl 1933
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Conodonta
- Prioniodontida
- Icriodontidae
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Pedavis pesavis
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Rhynchonellata
- Atrypida
- Atrypidae
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Atrypa sp.
Dalman 1828
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
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Rhynchonellida indet.
Kuhn 1949
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Trigonirhynchiidae
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Ancillotoechia informal sp. A
Havlicek 1959
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Rhynchonellata
- Pentamerida
- Gypidulidae
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Gypidula thorsteinssoni n. sp.
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Carinagypa careopleura n. sp.
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Reticulariidae
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? Undispirifer sp.
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Rafinesquinidae
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Leptaena informal sp. A Johnson
Dalman 1828
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unclassified
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? Stenozonotriletes irregularis
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| "spores" | ||||||||||
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Chitinozoa indet.
Nõlvak 2007
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Nunavut |
| Coordinates: | 73.5° North, 100.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 2.1° South, 30.3° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Early/Lower Devonian |
| Stage: | Lochkovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 1 | *Local age/stage: | Late/Upper Lochkovian |
| Key time interval: | Lochkovian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 419.20000 - 410.80000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Age of faunas discussed at length in this paper. Author concludes they are correlative with Quadrithyris Zone of Nevada, and of Late Lochkovian age. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray argillaceous "limestone" | ||
| Lithology description: "The collections from Prince of Wales Island were taken from a slightly argillaceous grey limestone..." | |||
| Environment: | deep subtidal shelf | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
| Geology comments: "...well-preserved articulated specimens, suggesting that [shells] have been moved little, if any, from their habitat while living."
SEP environmental call based on given info and regional context | |||
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | GSC |
| Taxonomic list comments:Paper is on brachiopods. Some other faunal elements are mentioned for some collections, especially when biostratigraphically relevant. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 26646 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Foote | Enterer: | M. Foote |
| Modifier: | S. Peters | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-10-21 11:58:15 | Last modified: | 2003-05-14 13:46:32 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-10-21 11:58:15 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7311. | J. G. Johnson. 1975. Devonian brachiopods from the Quadrithyris Zone (Upper Lochkovian), Canadian arctic archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 235:5-36 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote] |