Road River Fm. (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories and Yukon, Canada (62.6° N, 125.0° W: paleocoordinates 8.3° N, 53.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Road River Formation, Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; cherty/siliceous limestone and shale

• "black sh and cherty ls. outermost shelf?"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. C. Lenz, D. J. Glass, and A. E. H. Pedder. 1972. Lower and Middle Paleozoic Sediments and Paleontology of Royal Creek and Peel River, Yukon, and Powell Creek, NWT: Excursion A-14. 24th International Geological Congress [M. Uhen/J. Ju/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 514: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 07.01.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Lenz and Pedder, 1972, p.29. NOT USED"
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Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Monograptus sp.
Monograptus sp. graptolite
2 species
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp.
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Schedohalysites sp., Halysites sp.
Schedohalysites sp. Hamada 1957 tabulate coral
Halysites sp. von Waldheim 1813 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Dinophyllum sp., Streptelasma sp.
Dinophyllum sp. Lindström 1882 horn coral
Streptelasma sp. Hall 1847 horn coral
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
Pilophyllum sp.
Pilophyllum sp. Wedekind 1927 horn coral