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The Whiterockian, often referred to simply as the Whiterock, is an earliest or lowermost stage of the Middle Ordovician.〔Flower, R.H. 1964, The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda) Memoir 12; New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources,Socorro,NM〕〔Flower, R.H. 1971; Cephalopods of the Whiterock Stage; Smithsonian Contributions to Paleontology, No.3, 101–111, 1971〕〔Salvadore, A. 1985; COSUNA Stratigraphic Correlation Charts, United States. AAPG Bul Vol 69, no,2, 181–189, Feb 1985.〕 Although the Whiterockian or Whiterock Stage refers mainly to the early Middle Ordovician in North America, it is often used in the older literature in a global sense. The Whtetrock Stage was introduced by Cooper and Cooper (in Cooper, 1956, p. 6–7) "as a post-Canadian – pre-Chazyan chrono-stratographic unit" based on strata "in the Monitor and Antelope Ranges, flanking Antelope Valley, and in the Toquima Range of central Nevada", referred to as the Antelope Valley Limestone.〔Fahraeus, Lars E. 1977. Correlation of the Canadian/Champlainian series boundary and the Whiterock stage of North America with Western European conodont and graptolite zones. Bul Canadian Petroleum Geology, Sept 1977, V. 25, no 5, 981–994.〕 The strato-type section in Whiterock Canyon in the northern Monitor Range and reference section at Meiklejohn Peak, Bare Mountain Quad. Nev. both show the boundary between the middle Ordovician Whiterock and underlying (mostly Canadian) Ibex series lies between the conodont ''Oepikodus evae'', below, and ''Tripodus laevis'', above, at the start of the ''Isograptus victoriae'' graptolite lineage, seemingly coincident with the start of the Taconic Orogeny.〔R.J Ross, jr. et al 1991. Stratotype of Ordovician Whiterock Series. Palaios. 1991, V.6 p. 156–173.〕 The Whiterock Stage is given a range from 471.8 (ca. 472) to 462 m.y.a., spanning close to 10 million years. Officially its start is defined by the potentially lowest occurrence of the conodont ''Protoprioniodus aranda'' or ''Baltoniodus triangularis''. The Whiterockian is preceded by the North American Cassinian and Ibexian stages and by the Canadian Series and ICS Arenigian, overlaps with the slightly younger and newer ICS Darriwilian〔(GeoWhen Database. )〕 and is followed as originally conceived by the Chazyan of North America. ==''References''== *Cooper, G.A, 1965. Chazyan and related brachiopods: Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 127 .... 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Whiterock Stage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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