Stratotype of Ordovician Whiterock Series

R. J. Ross; R. L. Ethington; C. E. Mitchell

doi:10.2307/3514880

Stratotype of Ordovician Whiterock Series

R. J. Ross
, R. L. Ethington
, C. E. Mitchell

Earth Sciences

Colorado School of Mines

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Reaffirms and documents fossil ranges at the stratotype section for the base of the Whiterock Series in Whiterock Canyon, northern Monitor Range, Nevada, and designate a reference section at Meiklejohn Peak, Bare Mountain quadrangle, Nevada. In both sections, stratigraphic ranges of conodonts indciate that the boundary between the Whiterock and the underlying Ibex Series lies between Oepikodus evae below and Tripodus laevis above. This level is correlated with the inception of the Isograptus victoriae graptolite lineage. Coeval brachiopod and trilobite faunas are summarized and their ranges graphically illustrated. The base of the Whiterock Series seems to be coincident with the start of the Taconic Orogeny. During the Whiterock other tectonically controlled events preceded the Tippecanoe Sequence in North America. -Authors

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	156-173
Number of pages	18
Journal	Palaios
Volume	6
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/3514880
State	Published - 1991

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