GSC 47996, South Fiord Dome, Axel Heiberg Island (Carboniferous to of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (79.4° N, 94.1° W: paleocoordinates 25.1° N, 4.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Otto Fiord Formation, Marsdenian to Marsdenian (321.3 - 318.7 Ma)

• Halian (late Namurian, R2 or G1).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E.W. Hoen in 1960; 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 170664: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Reticuloceratidae
Bilinguites sp. Librovitch 1946 ammonite
Bilinguites heibergensis Nassichuk 1975 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Bisatoceratidae
Bisatoceras hoeni Nassichuk 1975 ammonite