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- In geology, the Arenig (or Arenigian) is a time interval during the Ordovician period and also the suite of rocks which were deposited during this interval...
- 1962. Its age, as given in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology is Arenigian. Bajkaloceras is characterized by an orthonic s**** with an elliptical...
- quartzose sandstones known as the Stiperstones Quartzite Formation. This Arenigian age rock unit which dips steeply to the WNW is between 120 and 325m thick...
- age are found is Middle Canadian and roughly equivalent to the Lower Arenigian. The Jeffersonian which is the Lower Upper Canadian is based on the dolomitic...
- genus of nautiloid cephalopods found only in upper Lower Ordovician, Arenigian, carbonates on Svalbard Island and Jan Mayen Island. The type and only...
- record the appearance of mineralized skeletons in this phylum. By the Arenigian stage of the Early Ordovician period, about 480 million years ago, all...
- marine sediments of Demingian through the C****inian age, (essentially Arenigian, = early Middle -Upper Canadian) . Pilocerids split off from the Proterocameroceratidae...
- Glenogle Formation or Glenogle Shale is a stratigraphic unit of Ordovician (Arenigian to early Caradocian) age. It is present on the western edge of the Western...
- suspension feeders. They lived in the Paleozoic Era, Ordovician Period, upper Arenigian age (between 478.6 ± 1.7 and 471.8 ± 1.6 million years ago) to the Carboniferous...
- Trilobite fossils are common in the shale. The Barrios Formation is Arenigian and up to 500 metres (1,600 ft) thick. It consists of a white m****ive...