Royal Creek II partial section at 187.0 m (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Yukon, Canada (64.8° N, 135.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 2.6° N, 84.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); limestone

• SEP environmental call based on given info. and regional context
• Overall: "...[section] represents a small enclave of deeper water shales and limestones surrounded by shallow water, massive, light-colored limestone...section consists of a more or less regular alternation of limestones, shaly limestones, and calcareous shale. The limestones are typically very dark and have a high organic content. Some lst beds contain 10-15% chert in the form of irregular masses, show minor brecciation, and may be partially silicfied in a spongy pattern. The shales vary in their calcareous content, so that at the extreme end, might well be defined as platy, shaly lsts. Fossils are for the most part common to abundant in the carbonates, and most are totally silicified..the shales contain a relatively small fauna of scattered graptolites and rare brachiopods..." [Lithology for this particular collection based on reading symbols off schematic section.]

Primary reference: A. C. Lenz. 1977. Yukon Territory. in A. Martinsson, ed. The Silurian-Devonian boundary (IUGS, Series A, Number 5). Schweizerbart'sche, Stuttgart. 272-280 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14015: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• "The shelly faunas...include only the conodonts, brachiopods and corals, the remaining faunas not having as yet been studied." [These other elements include trilobites, echinoderms, sponges, bivalves, and gastropods.]
unclassified
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Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Areostrophiidae
Aesopomum sp. Havlicek 1965
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
genus name in quotes
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Machaerariidae
Machaeraria sp.1 Cooper 1955
 Orthida - Draboviidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria sp. King 1850
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Dalejina sp. Havlicek 1953
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Gypidula sp. Hall 1867
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
Clorinda sp. Barrande 1879
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa cf. granulifera
genus name in quotes
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
"Ogilviella rotunda" = Rhynchogilviella rotunda Lenz 1968
 Atrypida - Punctatrypidae