Where: Nunavut, Canada (79.8° N, 82.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 4.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Assistance Formation, Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• 21 feet above base of formation equivalent to Unit B on Melville Island.

•Assistance Formation is Roadian in age according to Anfinson et al. (2016).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Thorsteinsson in 1962

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 120472: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.11.2011

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