Where: Nunavut, Canada (80.6° N, 87.5° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 1.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Confederation Point Member (Blind Fiord Formation), Dienerian (250.5 - 251.2 Ma)

• Upper part of Confederation Point Mb, Late Dienerian. The bryozoans occur 333 m above the base of the Confederation Point Member, in a 30-cm-thick limy fine-grained sandstone bed, and again 1 m higher in a 20-cm-thick limy fine-grained sandstone bed.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, fine-grained, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T. Beatty in 2004

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 116815: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.09.2011

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