GSC coll. 36962 Cape Baird (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (81.5° N, 64.5° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° N, 33.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Middle Ordovician to Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 443.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Christie in 1958

Primary reference: R. L. Christie. 1964. Geological Reconnaissance of northeastern Ellesmere Island, District of Franklin. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 331:1-79 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 101977: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 06.01.2011

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Taxonomic list

• Identified by G. Winston Sinclair
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Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp.
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
? Plectorthis sp.
? Plectorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Cephalopoda
 Actinocerida - Armenoceratidae
Armenoceras cf. richardsoni
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Streptelasma sp.
Streptelasma sp. Hall 1847 horn coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora sp.
Catenipora sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Sarcinulida - Billingsariidae
Foerstephyllum sp.
Foerstephyllum sp. Bassler 1950 tabulate coral