Also known as GSC Loc. No. C-26302
Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (61.7° N, 125.9° W: paleocoordinates 6.9° N, 58.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ceraurinella longispina trilobite zone, Esbataottine Formation, Sandbian (458.4 - 453.0 Ma)
• Formation designation from Chatterton and Ludvigsen (1976) [Copeland refers to this part of section as "unnamed formation"].
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: chemical,
Primary reference: M. J. Copeland. 1974. Middle Ordovician ostracoda from southwestern District of Mackenzie. Canada Geological Survey Bulletin (244)1-55 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 102271: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 12.01.2011, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Bolbopisthia cf. lenzi ostracod | |
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Bairdiocypris cf. granti ostracod | |
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? Eoleperditia sp. Swartz 1949 ostracod | |
| Trilobita | |
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Sphaerexochus atacius n. sp.1, Ceraurus hirsuitus n. sp.1, "Ceraurinella arctica" = Arcticeraurinella arctica1, Ceraurinella longispina1, Ceraurinella media1
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