GSC Loc. 93876 - Amund Ringnes Island [Deer Bay Fm] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (78.7° N, 103.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 65.1° N, 3.7° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Deer Bay Formation, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Deer Bay Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: lower upper Valanginian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the upper Deer Bay Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Not reported in text, but apparently marine siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of Canada (GSC).

Primary reference: E. Kemper and J. A. Jeletzky. 1979. New stratigraphically and phylogenetically important Olcostephanid (Ammonitida) taxa from the uppermost Lower and Upper Valanginian of Sverdrup Basin. Geological Society of Canada Paper 79(19):1-25 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87738: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to described ammonoids. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia crassicollis Keyserling 1846 scallop