Clay cliff (Ordovician of Canada)
Where: Ontario, Canada (45.7° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 21.6° S, 52.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Richmondian (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: A. F. Foerste. 1924. Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 138(121):1-99 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 173014: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Susan Scholze on 08.09.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella richmondensis Miller 1882 | |
Anthozoa | |
Columnaria calicina Nicholson 1874 horn coral | |
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Lyopora goldfussi Billings 1858 tabulate coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Lophospira manitoulinensis Foerste 1924 snail | |
"Oxydiscus perstriatus" = Joleaudella perstriatus
"Oxydiscus perstriatus" = Joleaudella perstriatus Foerste 1924 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Cyrtodonta ponderosa Billings 1865 clam | |
Byssonychia borealis Foerste 1924 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Zygospira kentuckiensis Hall and Clarke 1895 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Constellaria polystomella Nicholson 1875 | |
Rhombotrypa quadrata Rominger 1866 | |
Polychaeta | |
Spirorbis cincinnatiensis Miller and Dyer 1878 |