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.]
Show authors, comments, and common names
unclassified | |
Strophomenata | |
Aesopomum sp. Havlicek 1965 | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Machaeraria sp.1 Cooper 1955 | |
Schizophoria sp. King 1850 | |
Dalejina sp. Havlicek 1953 | |
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946 | |
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858 | |
Nucleospira cf. ventricosa Hall 1857 | |
Gypidula sp. Hall 1867 | |
Clorinda sp. Barrande 1879 | |
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
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"Ogilviella rotunda" = Rhynchogilviella rotunda, Spirigerina supramarginalis
"Ogilviella rotunda" = Rhynchogilviella rotunda Lenz 1968
Spirigerina supramarginalis Khalfin 1948 | |