GSC 35316, Sabine Peninsula, Melville Island (Permian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (76.0° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 3.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• In talus probably from beds younger than the Assistance Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Thorsteinsson in 1958

Collection methods: surface (float)

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1969. Permian Strophalosiidae (Brachiopoda) from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Journal of Paleontology 43:28-40 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120470: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Echinalosia melvillensis n. sp. Waterhouse 1983