Also known as ETE Locality 179, Haughton-Astrobleme,

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (75.4° N, 89.4° W: paleocoordinates 75.8° N, 80.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Haughton Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• Type section

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crater lake; poorly lithified, carbonaceous mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression, original carbon

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: L. J. Hickey, K. R. Johnson, and M. R. Dawson. 1988. The Stratigraphy, sedimentology and fossils of the Haughton Formation: a post-impact crater-fill, Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada. Meteoritics 23:221-231 [S. Wing/S. Wing/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21371: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Scott Wing on 04.01.1993, edited by Mark Uhen

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