Where: Nunavut, Canada (76.6° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° N, 8.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Otto Fiord Formation, Marsdenian to Marsdenian (321.3 - 318.7 Ma)
• Locality occurs in a 15 foot sequence of thin-bedded, shale-like dark gray limestone, which is underlain by about 10 feet of anhydrite and is overlain by 60 feet of light gray shale interbedded with calcareous sandstone. Halian (late Namurian, R2 or G1).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W.W. Nassichuk in 1967; reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: W. W. Nassichuk. 1975. Carboniferous ammonoids and stratigraphy in the Canadian Arctic archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 237:1-240 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 170654: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.06.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Bisatoceras hoeni Nassichuk 1975 ammonite | |
Bilinguites canadensis Nassichuk 1975 ammonite |