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Middle Ordovician (Whiterockian-Chazyan) Trilobites MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN (WHITEROCKIAN-CHAZYAN) TRILOBITES FROM THE SUNBLOOD FORMATION, DISTRICT OF MACKENZIE A thesis presented to the Department of Geological Sciences Brock University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Geology By James Tremblay B.Sc. © 1989 Dr. Stephen R. Westrop Thesis Supervisor 2 ABSTRACT The Middle Ordovician Sunblood Formation in the South Nahanni River area, District of Mackenzie, comprises mainly limestones and dolostones of intertidal and shallow subtidal origin as indicated by the presence of desiccation polygons, fenestral fabric, and oncolites. The study of well preserved, silicified trilobites from low diversity, Bathyurus-dominated, Nearshore Biofacies faunas of Whiterockian and Chazyan age collected in six stratigraphic sections through the Sunblood Formation permits the recognition of three new Whiterockian zones, and two previously established Chazyan zones. The Bathyurus mackenziensis, Bathyurus sunbloodensis, and Bathyurus margareti zones (Whiterockian), together with the Bathyurus nevadensis and Bathyurus granu/osus zones (Chazyan) represent the Nearshore Biofacies components of a dual biostratigraphic scheme that considers both temporal and spatial distribution patterns, and are compositionally distinct from faunas in correlative strata around North America that represent other biofacies. Twenty-six species belonging to eighteen genera are described and illustrated. Ludvigsenella ellipsepyga is established as a new bathyurine genus, in addition to four new species of Bathyurus : Bathyurus mackenziensis, Bathyurus sunbloodensis, Bathyurus margareti and Bathyurus acanthopyga. Other genera present are: Basilicus, Isote/us, ///aenus, Bumastoides, Fail/eana, Phorocepha/a, 3 Ceraurinella, Acanthoparypha, Xystocrania, Cydonocephalus, Ectenonotus, Pseudomera, Encrinuroides, Calyptaulax, Amphilichas and Hemiarges. 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to first express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Steve Westrop, who provided a tremendous amount of inspiration and assistance throughout this project. Also, many thanks are due to Rolf Ludvigsen, without whom this work would not be possible. Many people contributed their time and skills towards improving this thesis. At Brock University, Divino Mucciante developed many of the negatives, and Dan Redmond printed a considerable portion of the photographs. I thank Rick Cheel for reading a preliminary draft and making some constructive comments. Dave Rudkin, Joan Burke, and Janet Waddington at the Royal Ontario Museum were always very helpful and friendly. Finally, I would like to express my warmest thanks to my wife Margaret, who not only provided loving support and assistance from the very start of this endeavour, but patiently endured long periods of separation while I was in St. John's. 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ABSTRACT 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS 5 LIST OF FIGURES 9 CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 10 STRATIGRAPHIC SETTING 16 CHAPTER 2. BIOSTRATIGRAPHY 18 INTRODUCTION 18 SPATIAL BIOSTRATIGRAPHY 19 Trilobite biofacies 19 TEMPORAL BIOSTRATIGRAPHY 25 Stadial nomenclature 25 The Whiterockian Stage 26 Whiterockian trilobite zones 28 Bathyurus mackenziensis Zone 28 Bathyurus sunbloodsis Zone 29 Bathurus margareti Zone 30 The Chazyan Stage and trilobite zones 30 Bathyurus nevadenis Zone 30 Bathyurus granulosus Zone 31 Ceraurinella nahanniensis Zone 31 CHAPTER 3. SYSTEMATIC PALEONTOLOGY 33 6 TERMINOLOGY AND REPOSITORY 33 Family ASAPHIDAE Burmeister, 1843 34 Subfamily ASAPHINAE Burmeister, 1843 34 Genus Basi/icus Salter, 1849 34 Subfamily ISOTELINAE Angelin, 1854 34 Genus Isotelus DeKay, 1824 34 Family ILLAENIDAE Hawle &Corda, 1847 36 Subfamily ILLAENINAE Hawle & Corda, 1847 36 Genus Illaenus Dalman, 1827 36 Genus Bumastoides Whittington, 1954 38 Subfamily BUMASTINAE Raymond, 1916 39 Genus Fai/leana Chatterton and Ludvigsen, 1976 39 Family BATHYURIDAE Walcott, 1886 39 Subfamily BATHYURINAE Walcott, 1866 39 Genus Bathyurus Billings, 1859 41 Genus Ludvigsene//a new genus 54 Family TELEPHINIDAE Marek, 1952 58 Genus Phorocepha/a Lu, 1965 58 Family CHEIRURIDAE Hawle and Corda, 1847 59 Subfamily CHEIRURINAE Hawle and Corda, 1847 59 Genus Ceraurine//a Cooper, 1953 59 Subfamily ACANTHOPARYPHINAE Whittington and Evitt, 1954 61 Genus Acanthoparypha Whittington and Evitt, 1954 61 7 Subfamily SPHAEREXOCHINAE Opik, 1937 62 Genus Xystocrania Whittington, 1965 62 Genus Cydonocephalus Whittington,1963 64 Family PLIOMERIDAE Raymond,1913 66 Subfamily CYBELOPSINAE Fortey, 1979 66 Genus Ectenonotus Raymond, 1920 66 Genus Pseudomera Holliday, 1942 66 Family ENCRINURIDAE Angelin, 1854 68 Subfamily ENCRINURINAE Angelin,1854 68 Genus Encrinuroides Reed, 1931 68 Family PTERYGOMETOPIDAE Reed, 1905 70 Subfamily PTERYGOMETOPINAE Reed, 1905 70 Genus Catyptautax COOPER, 1930 70 Family LICHIDAE Hawle and Corda, 1847 71 Subfamily TETRALICHINAE Phleger, 1936 71 Genus Amphilichas Raymond, 1905 71 Subfamily CERATARGINAE Tripp, 1957 72 Genus Hemiarges Gurich, 1901 72 REFERENCES 73 PLATES 1-8 82 APPENDICES 1-6 109 Guide to symbols used in appendices 110 APPENDIX 1. Section G 111 APPENDIX 2. Section P 114 APPENDIX 3. Section S 116 8 APPENDIX 4. Section Z 122 APPENDIX 5. Section B 125 APPENDIX 6. Section Y 127 9 LIST OF FIGURES Page 1a. Locality map of study area showing the six measured sections. 12 1b. Map showing location of the Redstone Arch, Root Basin and Selwyn Basin. 12 2. Correlation chart of the six measured sections in the study area, showing the sequence of formations and the study interval for each section. 13 3. Stratigraphic columns for the study intervals in each section, showing gross lithology and the occurrences of collections, conodont zones and trilobite zones. 14 4. Correlation of the Sunblood Formation study interval with formations in Nevada, Utah, Oklahoma and Newfoundland. 15 5. Distribution and composition of Chazyan trilobite biofacies. 21 6. Generic composition of Nearshore Biofacies collections from the study interval. 22 7. Distribution and composition of Whiterockian trilobite biofacies. 23 8. Sequence of trilobite and conodont zones in the study interval correlated with trilobite zones and brachiopod zones in Utah and Nevada. 24 10 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION The southern Mackenzie Mountains expose a complete sequence of Middle Ordovicia,n (Whiterockian, Chazyan, Blackriveran and Trentonian stages) carbonate strata. Mapping by the Geological Survey of Canada from the late 1950's through the mid 1960's (Douglas and Norris, 1960, 1961, 1963; Gabrielse et aI., 1973) has facilitated lithostratigraphic work for this interval throughout the region (Ludvigsen, 1975a, b; Morrow and Cook, 1987), and Middle Ordovician rocks have been assigned in ascending order to the Sunblood, Esbataottine, and the lower Whittaker formations. The trilobite zonation and biofacies of the Chazyan-Edenian portions of the Sunblood, Esbataottine, and Whittaker formations, as well as the paleogeography of the region have been studied by Ludvigsen (1975a, b, 1978, 1979), and Chatterton and Ludvigsen (1976). In addition, biofacies analysis of Chazyan - Blackriveran ostracodes, bryozoans and conodonts has been performed by Hayes (1980), and the systematics and biostratigraphy of Whiterockian through Edenian conodont and ostracode faunas have been analysed by Tipnis et aI., (1978) and Copeland (1974, 1977, 1978) respectively. However, except for a cursory treatment of the "Orthidiella - 'Goniotelina' Fauna" by Ludvigsen (1975a, b, 1979), the trilobites of the Whiterockian Stage have not been studied. The recently proposed dual biostratigraphy concept of Ludvigsen et al. (1986), which integrates the temporal (zones) and spatial (biofacies) 1 1 distribution of taxa, has implications for the trilobite biostratigraphy of the interval covered in this thesis. The Whiterockian Bathyurus- dominated collections from the District of Mackenzie are compositionally distinct from faunas of correlative mid- to outer shelf environments in Nevada and Utah (Ross, 1951, 1967, 1970, 1972; Hintze, 1953), Oklahoma (Shaw, 1974), and western Newfoundland (Whittington, 1963, 1965). Of these locations, a trilobite zonation has been established for Nevada and Utah (see Hintze, 1953), but these trilobite assemblage zones do not include species of Bathyurus, and they cannot be recognized in the study area. Therefore, a new set of trilobite zones must b~ established for the Bathyurus -dominated biofacies in the District of Mackenzie. The purpose of this thesis is to describe and illustrate the trilobite faunas of Whiterockian and Chazyan age in the South Nahanni River area, to analyse the biofacies in which they occur, and to propose a new zonation scheme for the study interval that considers both the spatial and temporal distribution of trilobites. The silicified trilobites studied were collected by Rolf Ludvigsen during the period from 1971 to 1976 from the Sunblood Formation at six different locations in the study area (Fig. 1). The study interval is confined to the fossiliferous Whiterockian and Chazyan portions of the sections (Fig. 2) exposed at these locations. Ludvigsen isolated the trilobites from the carbonate matrix but did no further work with the material and, except for a few specimens (Ludvigsen 1975a, pI. 1, figs. 10 - 13), none of the material has been illustrated or described. In addition to picked and unpicked silicified residues, Ludvigsen provided descriptions of YUKON '. ( .,.. .".. TERRITORY \.. •' • \ .........----... - ~ §i --. <.-, CI)- J ~ S j' ~-. •, oq;i
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