GSC loc. 7470 (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (82.7° N, 75.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 1.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

• Map unit 10B, Trettin 1969.

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified limestone and lithified, calcareous shale

• Shallow marine, brackish, and perhaps also non-marine, fluvial environments; unequivocal evidence for open marine environments is lacking.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: H. P. Trettin. 1969. Geology of Ordovician to Pennsylvanian rocks, M'Clintock Inlet, north coast of Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 183:1-93 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 111663: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 27.06.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Identified by W.A. Bell.
Show authors, comments, and common names
Gnathostomata
  -
Actinopterygii indet.
Actinopterygii indet. ray-finned fish
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
 Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidophloios laricinus
Lepidophloios laricinus Sternberg 1820
Lepidophyllum
  -
Lepidophyllum sp.
Lepidophyllum sp. Brongniart 1828