Baillie-Hamilton Island, 402Y (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (75.8° N, 94.4° W: paleocoordinates 2.8° N, 31.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cape Phillips Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• locality 402Y is approximately equal to Baillie-Hamilton Island section BH1-120m

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone and lithified, calcareous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby and B. D. E. Chatterton. 1989. Middle Silurian Ludlovian and Wenlockian sponges from Baillie-Hamilton and Cornwallis Islands, Arctic Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 391:1-69 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119782: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Streptosclerophorida - Hindiidae
Hindia sphaeroidalis Duncan 1879 demosponge
 Lithistida - Anthaspidellidae
Psarodictyum attenuatum Rigby and Chatterton 1989 demosponge
Archaeoscyphia minganensis Billings 1859 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida - Haplistiidae
Haplistion frustrum n. sp. Rigby and Chatterton 1989 demosponge