Where: Nunavut, Canada (75.6° N, 94.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 32.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• from the lower part of the section, just above the Llandovery-Wenlock boundary

• 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 119786: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.11.2011

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