Hespeler (Silurian of Canada)

Also known as = New Hope

Where: Ontario, Canada (43.4° N, 80.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 25.4° S, 73.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Guelph Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; dolomite

• "Environment: Probably the Janius Community of the Janius Community Group, as judged from the brachiopods, representing BA 3."

•SEP: the Guelph Formation is a very well known and intensively studied unit for petroleum. It is known among petroleum geologists as a "dolomitic reef" and has been the target of drilling in Ontario and the Michigan basin for many years. There is evidence for subaerial exposure during the development of the these "reefal" buildups that fringe the Michigan basin (Charbonneau, 1990)

• "Dolomite"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: J. F. Whiteaves. 1884. On some new, imperfectly characterized or previously unrecorded species of fossils from the Guelph Formations of Ontario. Palaeozoic Fossils 3(1):1-43 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155723: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

• Only gastropods entered so far, as the taxonomy is 120+ years old.
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Tergomya
 Archinacellida - Archinacellidae
"Tryblidium canadense n. sp." = Guelphinacella canadense
"Tryblidium canadense n. sp." = Guelphinacella canadense Whiteaves 1884
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Codonocheilidae
Codonocheilus striatum
Codonocheilus striatum Whiteaves 1884 snail
 Euomphalina - Oriostomatidae
"Polytropis sulcatus" = Oriostoma globosum
"Polytropis sulcatus" = Oriostoma globosum von Schlotheim 1820 snail
 Euomphalina - Anomphalidae
"Pleurotomaria perlata" = Isfarispira perlata, "Pycnomphalus solarioides" = Pycnomphalus obesus
"Pleurotomaria perlata" = Isfarispira perlata Hall 1852 snail
"Pycnomphalus solarioides" = Pycnomphalus obesus Lindström 1884 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Euomphalus galtensis
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
"Tremanotus alpheus" = Tremanotus angustata
"Tremanotus alpheus" = Tremanotus angustata Hall 1852 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Pleurotomaria bispiralis" = Conotoma bispiralis
"Pleurotomaria bispiralis" = Conotoma bispiralis Hall 1852 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Loxonema boydii, Loxonema magnum
Loxonema boydii Hall 1843 snail
Loxonema magnum Whitfield 1878 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Murchisonia hespelerensis n. sp." = Loxoplocus gothlandicus, "Murchisonia soluta" = Loxoplocus soluta
"Murchisonia hespelerensis n. sp." = Loxoplocus gothlandicus Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
"Murchisonia soluta" = Loxoplocus soluta Whiteaves 1884 snail
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
"Murchisonia turritiformis" = Coelocaulus turritiformis, "Murchisonia longispira" = Coelocaulus longispira, "Coelocaeulus bivittata" = Ptychocaulus bivittata
"Murchisonia turritiformis" = Coelocaulus turritiformis Hall 1852 snail
"Murchisonia longispira" = Coelocaulus longispira Hall 1852 snail
"Coelocaeulus bivittata" = Ptychocaulus bivittata Hall 1852 snail
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
"Murchisonia loganii" = Cyrtostropha macrospira
"Murchisonia loganii" = Cyrtostropha macrospira Hall 1852 snail
 Murchisoniina - Subulitidae
Subulites compactus, "Subulites ventricosus" = Cyrtospira ventricosus
Subulites compactus Whiteaves 1884 snail
"Subulites ventricosus" = Cyrtospira ventricosus Hall 1852 snail