Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-dlnhk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-27T15:34:18.443Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Llandovery—Wenlock Halysitidae from New Brunswick, Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

G. A. Young  and
J. P. A. Noble
G. A. Young
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton E3B 5A3, Canada
J. P. A. Noble
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton E3B 5A3, Canada
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

A large collection of Silurian halysitids, mainly from the Limestone Point, La Vieille, and Petit Rocher Formations of northern New Brunswick, includes nine species distributed among Catenipora Lamarck, Halysites Fischer von Waldheim, and Cystihalysites Tchernyshev. One species, Cystihalysites belledunensis, is new, and, of the others, half are previously unknown in the Chaleur Bay region and half have been described before from this area.

All species are defined using both qualitative and quantitative data. Statistical analysis of serial sections of a corallum of Cystihalysites belledunensis suggests that any random section of a halysitid will yield quantitative data representative of that colony.

Preliminary analysis of the relationships between species distributions and stratigraphy and sedimentary associations suggests strong facies-control on the distribution of the four most abundant species. Both Catenipora simplex (Lambe) and Catenipora micropora (Whitfield) occur mostly in outer shelf facies. Cystihalysites belledunensis n. sp. and Cystihalysites encrustans (Buehler) never occur together, the former being found in predominantly high-energy inner shelf facies and the latter in the outer shelf facies.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Paleontology , Volume 61 , Issue 6 , November 1987 , pp. 1125 - 1147
Copyright
Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Alcock, F. J. 1935. Geology of the Chaleur Bay region. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 183, 99 p.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Amsden, T. W. 1949. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Brownsport Formation (Silurian) of western Tennessee. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 5, 138 p.Google Scholar
Bolton, T. E. 1981a. Late Ordovician and Early Silurian Anthozoa of Anticosti Island, Québec. Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group. Field Meeting Anticosti–Gaspé. Vol. II: Stratigraphy and Paleontology, p. 107–135.Google Scholar
Bolton, T. E. 1981b. Early Silurian Anthozoa of Chaleurs Group, Port-Daniel–Black Cape region, Gaspé Peninsula, Québec. Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy, Ordovician-Silurian Boundary Working Group. Field Meeting Anticosti-Gaspé. Vol. II: Stratigraphy and Paleontology, p. 299–314.Google Scholar
Buehler, E. J. 1955. The morphology and taxonomy of the Halysitidae. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 8, p. 1–79.Google Scholar
Dixon, O. A. 1974. Late Ordovician Propora (Coelenterata: Heliolitidae) from Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada. Journal of Paleontology, 48:568–585.Google Scholar
Ehlers, G. M. 1973. Stratigraphy of the Niagaran Series of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan. University of Michigan, Museum of Paleontology, Papers on Paleontology, 3, 200 p.Google Scholar
Fischer von Waldheim, G. 1813. Zoognosia tabulis synopticis illustrata… Editio tertia 1, Moscow, 465 p.Google Scholar
Fischer von Waldheim, G. 1828. Notice sur les polypiers tubipores fossiles. Programme pour la séance publique de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes, Moscow, p. 9–23.Google Scholar
Hamada, T. 1957. On the classification of the Halysitidae, 1. University of Tokyo, Journal of the Faculty of Science, sec. 2, 10:393–405.Google Scholar
Hamada, T. 1958. Japanese Halysitidae. University of Tokyo, Journal of the Faculty of Science, sec. 2, 11:91–114.Google Scholar
Hill, D. 1981. Rugosa and Tabulata. In Teichert, C. (ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Pt. F, Coelenterata, Supplement 1. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 762 p.Google Scholar
Jull, R. K. 1962. Silurian Halysitidae of the Ronning Group, western Canada. Journal of the Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists, 10:326–330.Google Scholar
Klaamann, E. R. 1961. Tabulyaty i geliolitidy Venlocka Estonii. Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia Geoloogia Instituudi Uurimused, 6:69–112.Google Scholar
Lafuste, J., and Desparmet, R. 1969. Tabulés Siluriens de Sar-e-Pori, Afghanistan. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 2e Série, 41:1299–1305.Google Scholar
Lamarck, J. B. de M. de, P. A. 1816. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertébres, 2. Paris, 568 p.Google Scholar
Lambe, L. M. 1899. A revision of the genera and species of Canadian Paleozoic corals. The Madreporaria Perforata and the Alcyonaria. Geological Survey of Canada, Contributions to Canadian Paleontology, 4(1):1–96.Google Scholar
Lang, W. D., Smith, S., and Thomas, H. D. 1940. Index of Palaeozoic Coral Genera. British Museum (Natural History), London, 231 p.Google Scholar
Laub, R. S. 1979. The corals of the Brassfield Formation (mid-Llandovery; Lower Silurian) in the Cincinnati Arch region. Bulletins of American Paleontology, 75(305):1–432.Google Scholar
Leleshus, V. L. 1972. Siluriyskie tabulyaty Tadzhikistana (“Silurian tabulates of Tadzhikstan”). Akademiya Nauk Tadzhikistana SSR, Institutiy Geologiy, 85 p.Google Scholar
Lesley, J. P. 1892. A summary description of the geology of Pennsylvania. Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, 2:721–1628.Google Scholar
Linnaeus, C. 1767. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis synonymis, locis. Laurentius Salvius (Holmiae), Tomus 1: 12th ed., Vol. 1, Pt. 2, p. 533–1327.Google Scholar
Milne-Edwards, H., and Haime, J. 1854. A monograph of the British fossil corals. Fifth part: corals from the Silurian formation. Palaeontographical Society, London, 8(29), 322 p.Google Scholar
Noble, J. P. A. 1976. Silurian stratigraphy and paleogeography, Pointe Verte area, New Brunswick, Canada. Canadian Journal Earth Sciences, 13:537–546.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Noble, J. P. A., and Howells, K. D. M. 1974. Early marine lithification of the nodular limestone in the Silurian of New Brunswick. Sedimentology, 21:597–609.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Noble, J. P. A., and Howells, K. D. M. 1979. Early Silurian biofacies and lithofacies in relation to Appalachian basins in northern N.B. Bulletin Canadian Petroleum Geology, 27:242–265.Google Scholar
Noble, J. P. A., and Howells, K. D. M., and Young, G. A. 1984. The Llandovery-Wenlock heliolitid corals from New Brunswick, Canada. Journal of Paleontology, 58:867–884.Google Scholar
Norford, B. S. 1962a. The Silurian fauna of the Sandpile Group of northern British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 78, 51 p.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Norford, B. S. 1962b. Illustrations of Canadian fossils: Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian of the western Cordillera. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 62–14, 25 p.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Northrop, S. A. 1939. Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Silurian rocks of the Port-Daniel–Black Cape region, Gaspé. Geological Society of America Special Paper 21, 302 p.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Oliver, W. A. Jr., Merriam, C. W., and Churkin, M. Jr. 1975. Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian corals of Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 823-B: 13–44.Google Scholar
Parks, W. A. 1933. New species of stromatoporoids, sponges and corals from the Silurian strata of Baie des Chaleurs. University of Toronto Studies, Geology series, 33, 40 p.Google Scholar
Shrock, R. R., and Twenhofel, W. H. 1939. Silurian fossils from northern Newfoundland. Journal of Paleontology, 13:241–266.Google Scholar
Sinclair, G. W. 1955. Some Ordovician halysitoid corals. Royal Society of Canada, Proceedings and Transactions, Vol. 49, ser. 3, sec. 4:95–103.Google Scholar
Stasinska, A. 1967. Tabulata from Norway, Sweden, and from the erratic boulders of Poland. Palaeontologia Polonica, 18:1–112.Google Scholar
Stumm, E. C. 1964. Silurian and Devonian corals of the Falls of the Ohio. Geological Society of America Memoir 93, 184 p.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Swartz, C. K. 1913. Coelenterata, p. 195–227. In Lower Devonian, Maryland Geological Survey, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 560 p.Google Scholar
Tchernyshev, B. B. 1941. O nekotorykh verkhne-siluriyskikh korallakh vostochnogo Verkhoyanya: Vses. Arktichi Institutiy, Trudy, 158:65–74.Google Scholar
Thomas, H. D., and Smith, S. 1954. The coral genus Halysites Fischer von Waldheim. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 12, 7:765–774.Google Scholar
Twenhofel, W. H. 1928. Geology of Anticosti Island faunas. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 154, Geology Series 135, 481 p.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Whitfield, R. P. 1882. Paleontology, Pt. 3. In Geology of Wisconsin, Survey of 1873–1879, 4:1–272.Google Scholar
Williams, M. Y. 1919. The Silurian geology and faunas of the Ontario Peninsula, and Manitoulin and adjacent islands. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 111, 195 p.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wright, A. J., and Bourque, P.-A. 1980. Halysitid corals from Silurian and Devonian rocks of Quebec. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 17:788–796.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Young, G. A. 1911. Bathurst District, New Brunswick. Canadian Department of Mines, Geological Survey Branch Memoir 18-E:5–96.Google Scholar
Young, G. A., and Noble, J. P. A. 1987. The Llandovery-Wenlock Syringoporidae from New Brunswick, Canada. Journal of Paleontology, 61:268–283.CrossRefGoogle Scholar