Akpatok Island, 800' above sea level, Ungava Bay, Hudston Strait (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (60.3° N, 68.0° W: paleocoordinates 12.0° S, 37.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aphelognathus grandis conodont zone, Akpatok Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Weathered limestone

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 104999: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

• Only gastropods given.
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Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
"Liospira parva n. sp." = Paraliospira parva
"Liospira parva n. sp." = Paraliospira parva Wilson 1938 snail
 Murchisoniina - Straparollinidae
"? Coelocaulus peculiaris n. sp." = Daidia peculiaris
"? Coelocaulus peculiaris n. sp." = Daidia peculiaris Wilson 1938 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Lophospira minuta" = Lophospira milleri, "Lophospira grandis" = Paupospira akpatokensis
"Lophospira minuta" = Lophospira milleri Miller 1877 snail
"Lophospira grandis" = Paupospira akpatokensis Wilson 1939 snail