Where: Nunavut, Canada (80.5° N, 83.0° W: paleocoordinates 69.9° N, 5.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Deer Bay Formation, Valanginian (139.8 - 132.9 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Deer Bay Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Valanginian, on the basis of ammonite and bivalve biostratigraphy; Buchia keyserlingi zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: About 420 m above the base of the Deer Bay Fm; 25 ft below GSC Loc. 47679.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Thorsteinsson; reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Thorsteinsson. REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of Canada (GSC).
Primary reference: J. A. Jeletzky. 1965. Thorsteinssonoceras. A new craspeditid ammonitre from the Valanginian of Ellesmere Island, Arctic Archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 120:1-16 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87422: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Temnoptychites sp." = Nikitinoceras, Thorsteinssonoceras ellesmerensis
"Temnoptychites sp." = Nikitinoceras Sokolov 1913 ammonite
Thorsteinssonoceras ellesmerensis Jeletzky 1965 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Buchia cf. keyserlingi Lahusen 1888 scallop |