Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (78.5° N, 104.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 65.2° N, 3.0° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Deer Bay Formation, Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Deer Bay Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: middle part of lower Valanginian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the upper Deer Bay Fm; collected from talus; exact stratigraphic position unknown but it is assumed to be 91-106 m stratigraphically below GSC 100800..
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: surface (float),
• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. 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 87423: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Buchia sublaevis scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
Siberiptychites (Pseudoeuryptychites) middendorfi, Siberiptychites (Siberiptychites) stubbendorgi, Siberiptychites (Siberiptychites) fascicostatus
Siberiptychites (Siberiptychites) stubbendorgi ammonite = Polptychites (Euryptychites) stubbendorgi of Jeletzky (1965)
Siberiptychites (Siberiptychites) fascicostatus Jeletzky and Kemper 1988 ammonite |