GSC 76029, Cape Fortune, Cameron Island (Permian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (76.5° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 2.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.H. McNair, A.R. Ormiston

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 115730: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae
Spiriferella keilhavii3 von Buch 1847
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Kuvelousia sphiva n. gen. n. sp.1
Kuvelousia sphiva n. gen. n. sp.1 Waterhouse 1968
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Wyndhamia sphenarctica n. sp.2 Waterhouse 1969
Cephalopoda
 Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
Neogeoceras macnairi n. sp. Nassichuk et al. 1965 ammonite