GSC 85027, Malloch Dome, Ellef Ringnes Island (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (78.2° N, 101.3° W: paleocoordinates 25.5° N, 6.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Otto Fiord Formation, Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• Some 300 feet of well-bedded siltstone, dolomitic siltstone, dolomite, and limestone. Bloydian (Westphalian A=Kayalian).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.S. Warden in 1965; 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 170661: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Schistoceratidae
Branneroceras branneri Smith 1896 ammonite