Where: Nunavut, Canada (81.3° N, 84.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 1.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Smith Creek Member (Blind Fiord Formation), Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• Upper part of the Smith Creek Member, which is 95 m thick.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. Beauchamp, A. Baud in 1994

Primary reference: A. Baud, H. A. Nakren, B. Beauchamp, T. W. Beatty, A. F. Embry and C. M. Henderson. 2008. Lower Triassic bryozoan beds from Ellesmere Island, high arctic, Canada. Polar Research 27:428-440 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116813: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.09.2011

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