GSC C-462, Sabine Peninsula, Melville Island (NF 64-2-11) (Permian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (76.0° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 3.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W.W. Nassichuk in 1964

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1971. The Permian brachiopod genus Terrakea Booker, 1930. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 3:347-361 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120485: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Terrakea arctica Waterhouse 1971
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae
Timaniella harkeri Waterhouse 1971