Where: Nunavut, Canada (81.1° N, 84.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 5.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Trappers Cove Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• Uppermost exposed part of a sequence of interbedded dark gray limestones and shales referred to the "Hare Fiord Formation" (now presumably considered to be the Trappers Cove Fm), estimated to be some 180 m below the top.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, ferruginous siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. W. Nassichuk, W. M. Furnish, and B. F. Glenister. 1965. The Permian ammonoids of Arctic Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 131:1-56 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115728: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.09.2011

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