Black Shale fauna, Long Rapids Fm., Hudson Platform: Frasnian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
fish plate fragments - originally entered as "Osteichthyes sp."
Conodontophorida
Conodontophorida indet. Eichenberg 1930
conodont frags
Conodonta - Ozarkodinida - Palmatolepidae
Palmatolepis sp. Müller 1956
2 species - originally entered as "Palmatolepsis sp."
Tentaculita - Nowakiida - Nowakiidae
Nowakia sp. Gurich 1896
Tentaculita - Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
? Styliolina sp. Karpinsky 1884
originally entered as "? Styliolina sp."
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Hypothyridinidae
Hypothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
originally entered as "Hypothyridium sp."
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860
3 species
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Pugnacidae
Pugnax sp.
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Centronellidae
cf. Centronella sp. Billings 1859
originally entered as "cf. Centronella sp."
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Productella sp.
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
Cephalopoda - Agoniatitida - Gephuroceratidae
Manticoceras sp. Hyatt 1884
unclassified
Tasmanites sp. Newton 1875
a sporomorph
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Ontario
Coordinates: 51.0° North, 82.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.2° South, 26.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Late/Upper Devonian
Stage:Frasnian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 4
Key time interval:Frasnian
Age range of interval:382.70000 - 372.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Long Rapids
Stratigraphy comments: "Upper Dev."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: argillaceous siltstone
Secondary lithology: dolomite
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: "mdst, in bedded minor arg, dolomite clay ironstone nodules, and dark grey to black no calc. bituminous, rust stained shale (in bedded, fissile, gray-green shale less common). BA5"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"Sandford and Norris, 1975. Dev. strat of the Hudson Platform P and I: Strat. and econ geology. Can. Geol. Surv. Mem. 379. 124pp. Much of this fauna is not from black shale lithology- Also many conodonts were identified but are not listed here."
Metadata
Database number:633
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-04-06 16:40:49 Last modified:2017-02-01 20:12:13
Access level:the public Released:1999-04-06 16:40:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
61513. A. Sandford and F. Norris. 1975. Devonian strata of the Hudson Platform. Canadian Geological Survey Memoirs 379:1-124 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]