Loc. US618, Polar Bear Pass Region, Bathurst Is., Canada (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (75.8° N, 98.4° W: paleocoordinates 5.1° S, 24.0° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Monograptus yukonensis zone zone, Bathurst Island beds Formation, Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• in lower member of what was formerly known as the Stuart Bay Formation. Same beds as US603 and US617

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified, gray, calcareous sandstone

• Deposited by turbidites. Plant-bearing beds often are interbedded with chert-pebble conglomerates. Beds were deposited during periods of basement uplift along the eastern coast of Bathurst Island.
• monotonous, dark grey, thin to medium bedded, fine grained sandstones. Weather to light grey and then yellow.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, coalified, original carbon

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Collected on July 7, 1995

Primary reference: M. E. A. Kotyk. 1998. Late Silurian and Early Devonian fossil plants of Bathurst Island, Arctic Canada. University of Saskatchewan [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11216: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Michele Kotyk on 24.07.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Identifications of most animal fossils not given. Not processed for microfossils.
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Zosterophyllum
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Zosterophyllum arcticum
Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales -
Distichophytum ovatum
Zosterophyllopsida
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Zosterophyllopsida indet.
Zosterophyllopsida indet. Foster and Gifford 1974