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. 1967. Cool-water faunas from the Permian of the Canadian arctic. Nature 216(5110):47-49 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 120471: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
"Wyndhamia unispinosa n. sp." = Arcticalosia unispinosa
"Wyndhamia unispinosa n. sp." = Arcticalosia unispinosa Waterhouse 1969 |