Sunblood Range. P-2050 (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as GSC Loc. No. C-26301

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 102272: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 12.01.2011, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Eurychilinidae
 Palaeocopida - Aparchitidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
"Ceraurinella arctica" = Arcticeraurinella arctica Ludvigsen 1979 trilobite
Ceraurus hirsuitus Ludvigsen 1979 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Cybeloides cimelia Chatterton and Ludvigsen 1976 trilobite