GSC loc. 24721 (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (82.7° N, 76.7° W: paleocoordinates 6.3° N, 29.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: B Member (Zebra Cliffs Formation), Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

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 101984: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 06.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Identified by G. Winston Sinclair
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
 Favositida - Favositidae
"Palaeofavosites sp." = Paleofavosites
"Palaeofavosites sp." = Paleofavosites Twenhofel 1914 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
 Heliolitida - Plasmoporidae
Plasmopora lambei tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Sarcinulida - Syringophyllidae
"Calapoecia canadensis" = Calapoecia coxi
"Calapoecia canadensis" = Calapoecia coxi Bassler 1950 tabulate coral
Polychaeta
  -
Polychaeta indet. Grube 1850
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Holopea sp. Hall 1847 snail
 Eogastropoda - Sinuopeidae
Umbospira sp. Perner 1903 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira spp. Whitfield 1886 snail
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Hormotoma gracilis Hall 1847 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Cyclospiridae
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Trematoporidae
Batostoma sp. Ulrich 1882
 Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Rhinidictya sp. Ulrich 1882
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Conchoprimitiidae
"Conchoprimites sp." = Conchoprimitia
"Conchoprimites sp." = Conchoprimitia Opik 1935 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Aparchitidae
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Krausella sp. ostracod
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia sp. Rouault 1851 ostracod
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite