Lower and Middle Ordovician conodonts of Laurentian affinity from blocks of limestone in the Rosroe Formation,South Mayo Trough,western Ireland and their palaeogeographic implication     

Svend Stouge  David A. T. Harper  George D. Sevastopulo  Darren O'Mahony  John Murray 《Geological Journal》2016,51(4):584-599

The Middle Ordovician Rosroe Formation consists of some 1350 m of coarse, mainly siliciclastic to volcaniclastic sedimentary rocks, deposited in a submarine fan environment, and is restricted to the southern limb of the South Mayo Trough, western Ireland. Discrete allochthonous blocks, reaching 5 m in size, are present in the formation at several localities. Conodonts recovered from these blocks, collected from two separate locations, are of late Early and mid Mid Ordovician age. The conodonts have high conodont‐alteration indices (CAI 5) indicative of temperatures as high as 300^o to max. 480 °C; some found in the Lough Nafooey area have abnormally high indices (CAI 6), which correspond to temperatures of about 360^o to max. 550 °C. The oldest fauna is dominated by Periodon aff. aculeatus and characterized by Oepikodus evae typical of the Oepikodus evae Zone (Floian Stage; Stage Slices Fl2–3, Lower Ordovician). The younger conodont assemblage, characterized by Periodon macrodentatus associated with Oistodella pulchra, is referred to the P. macrodentatus conodont Biozone (lower Darriwilian; Stage Slices Dw1–2). The Rosroe conodont assemblages are of Laurentian affinity; comparable faunas are well known from several locations along the east to south‐eastern platform margin of Laurentia and the Notre Dame subzone of central Newfoundland, Canada. The faunal composition from the limestone blocks suggests a shelf edge to slope (or fringing carbonate) setting. The faunal assemblages are coeval with, respectively, the Tourmakeady Formation (Floian–Dapingian) and Srah Formation (Darriwilian) in the Tourmakeady Volcanic Group in the eastern part of the South Mayo Trough and probably are derived from the same or similar laterally equivalent short‐lived carbonate successions that accumulated at offshore ‘peri‐Laurentian’ islands, close to and along the Laurentian margin. During collapse of the carbonate system in the late Mid Ordovician, the blocks were transported down a steep slope and into deep‐water by debris flows, mixing with other rock types now found in the coarse polymict clastics of the Rosroe Formation. The faunas fill the stratigraphical ‘gap’ between the Lower Ordovician Lough Nafooey Volcanic Group and the upper Middle Ordovician Rosroe Formation in the South Mayo Trough and represent a brief interval conducive to carbonate accumulation in an otherwise siliciclastic‐ and volcaniclastic‐dominated sedimentary environment. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

再论华南志留系红层的时代   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

王成源 《地层学杂志》2011,(4):440-447

牙形刺P.eopennatus带的确立和P.celloni带、P.amorphognathoides带的细分,使华南Llandovery统的划分和对比发生了变化,以往归入P.celloni带的地层,极大多数都要归属到P.eopennatus带,层位变低。依据牙形刺生物地层的分析,溶溪组（下红层）的时代可能为埃隆期晚期,...  相似文献   

鄂西地区长阳组的时代问题     

谈力  李鑫  孙元林 《地层学杂志》2011,(1):8-18

对长阳组命名剖面的重新观察和研究表明,原认定的长阳组层位不存在误认的问题.来自长阳组命名剖面和相邻剖面长阳组的两件牙形石样品的分析结果显示:长阳组的牙形石化石组合以Siphonodella levis大量发育为特征,兼有少量的Polygnathus inormatus、P.cf.symmetricus、Bispatho...  相似文献   

The Kellwasser events in the Upper Devonian Frasnian to Famennian transition in the Toc Tat Formation,northern Vietnam     

Toshifumi Komatsu  Ryota Urakawa  Toshitaka Inada  Kazuki Yamauchi  Takumi Maekawa  Reishi Takashima  Mark Williams  Phong D. Nguyen  Hung D. Doan  Minh T. Nguyen  Shuji Niko  Gengo Tanaka  Tatsuhiko Yamaguchi 《Island Arc》2019,28(1)

Upper Devonian carbonates of the Toc Tat Formation in the Si Phai Pass area of Dong Van District, northern Vietnam were deposited in carbonate platform, slope, and basin environments. These carbonates yield abundant conodonts indicative of the Palmatolepis nasuta, Pa. linguiformis and Pa. triangularis zones, the Frasnian–Famennian stage boundary being identified by the first occurrence of Pa. triangularis. Two positive carbon isotope excursions are recognized, the lower excursion peaking in the interval of the lower to middle Pa. nasuta Zone, whilst the upper excursion peaks just above the local Frasnian–Famennian boundary. Based on the biostratigraphy, these excursions equate to the Lower and Upper Kellwasser events. Locally, tentaculitoid taxa (Nowakia, Styliolina, Homoctenus, and Metastyliolina?) are abundant in the interval of the Pa. nasuta Zone, but show a drastic decline in abundance before the Lower Kellwasser Event, and only two taxa survived into the Famennian.  相似文献   

吉林磐石七间房剖面石炭系鹿圈屯组的牙形刺及时代     

李东津  周晓东  王光奇  陈明  朗嘉彬  王成源 《世界地质》2012,31(3):441-450

在吉林磐石七间房剖面上部的两个样品( Lqt 22 和Lqt 26) 中发现了牙形刺Declinognathodus bernesge,D． inaequalis、D． noduliferous s． l． 及D． praenoduliferous。这一动物群的时代清楚地表明七间房剖面鹿圈屯组上部的时代为晚石炭亚纪巴什基尔期( Bashkirian) 的早期,可精确确定为D． praenoduliferous 带晚期至D． noduliferous 带早期。吉中地区石炭系的中间界线无疑在鹿圈屯组内部。  相似文献   

Age of Berh Hairhan Formation of Mongolia dated by conodonts     

Chengyuan WANG  Dorjsuren Byambadash  Bujinlkham Boujir  Jiabin LANG 《世界地质(英文版)》2007,10(1)

Conodont Caudicriodus angustus angustus(Steward et al.,1956)and Caudicriodus angustus cauda(Wang et al.,2005)were found from a big limestone lens of the Berh Hairhan Formation in the place of W 150 km to Ulaanbaatar City.The discovery indicates that the Berh Haihan Formation should be assigned to Middle Devonian Eifelian Stage.This conodont fauna was from a shallow cooler water facies in the relatively high latitude.  相似文献   

Devonian conodonts of the Amur region     

L. P. Eikhvald 《Russian Journal of Pacific Geology》2008,2(3):244-254

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三叠纪牙形石的古环境与古地理意义   总被引：2，自引：4，他引：2       下载免费PDF全文

杨守仁  郝维城  江大勇 《古地理学报》2001,3(1):78-84

牙形石广泛分布于寒武纪至三叠纪的海洋里。三叠纪牙形石的种类、形态、大小和产出频率受海水盐度、深度、温度和水动力条件等因素控制，不同的牙形石生态特征即牙形石相反映不同的沉积环境，所以，根据三叠纪牙形石相和牙形石特征属种的丰度，不但可区分三叠纪不同的沉积相区（台地相区、台地边缘相区、盆地相区），恢复三叠纪古地理面貌，而且可划分出牙形石生物地理区。中国早三叠世牙形石归属特提斯生物大区亚洲生物省，并可进一步划分出两个生物亚省和若干生态区。  相似文献   

陕西宁强地区志留纪牙形石及其地层意义   总被引：7，自引：2，他引：7  

丁梅华  李耀泉 《地球科学》1985,(2)

牙形石化石采自宁强大竹坝和二郎坝。共鉴定了30属70形态种,包括2新属13新种。据此与贵州和欧美同期地层对比,建立了二个牙形石组合二个亚组合,自下而上为:1.Spathognathodus parahassi组合,2.Spathognathodus celloni组合,包括二个亚组合:(1)Aulacognathus bashanensis亚组合,(2)Ozarkodina adiutricis亚组合。并对陕西宁强地区的王家湾组,杨坡湾组和宁强组的时代作了讨论。  相似文献   

Carbon isotope composition and correlation across the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary in Kalpin Region of the Tarim Basin, China     

《中国科学D辑(英文版)》2008,(9)

Biostratigraphically constrained sequences at the Wushi Yingshan and Kalpin Cement Plant sections (Kalpin Region; Tarim Basin) were densely sampled for geochemical studies. Carbonates across the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary of both sections mainly record negative carbon isotope values. Stable isotope curves show four negative and four positive excursions appearing alternately at the Wushi Yingshan section and five negative alternating with five positive excursions at the Kalpin Cement Plant section. The carbon isotope logs of these two sections are correlated with the international Cambrian-Ordovician boundary key sections: (1) Dayangcha section in China, (2) Green Point section in Canada, (3) Black mountain section in Australia and (4) Lowson Cove section in USA. These correlations suggest that the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary of the Wushi Yingshan section and the Kalpin Cement Plant section can be placed within a particular horizon that also corresponds to the observed biostratigraphic units.  相似文献