Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (76.0° N, 111.8° W: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 4.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Trold Fiord Formation, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• From float, possibly from Trold Fiord Formation (Waterhouse & Waddington, 1982)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Captain McClintock in 7, 1852

Collection methods: surface (float)

• On rounding Hillock Point, I picked up a few fossil shells which appeared to have been shoved up by the ice

Primary reference: S. Haughton. 1858. Geological notes and illustrations in McClintock's reminiscences of Arctic ice-travel in search of Sir John Franklin and his companions. Royal Society of Dublin Journal 1:239-250 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116122: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.09.2011

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