Akpatok Island, 275' above sea level, Ungava Bay, Hudston Strait (Ordovician of Canada)
Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (60.3° N, 68.0° W: paleocoordinates 13.2° S, 39.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Maysvillian (450.2 - 449.6 Ma)
• Unnamed sequence; sea level.
Environment/lithology: yellow limestone
• Massive yellow limestone akin to calcite mudstone with cephalopods and gastropods. Thin bands of shelly limestone rich in brachiopods and corals occur in intervals
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: A. E. Wilson. 1938. Gastropods from the Akpotok Island, Hudson Strait. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, sec. 4 4:25-37 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 104997: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Only gastropods given.
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| Gastropoda | |
? Bucania ungava n. sp.
? Bucania ungava n. sp. Wilson 1938 snail | |