GSC C22191, Bunde Fiord, Axel Heiberg Island (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (80.5° N, 94.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.2° N, 2.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nansen Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• 727 feet above the lowest exposure in the Nansen Formation. Desmoinesian (late Moscovian).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

• Light gray skeletal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dario Sedero in 1972; 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 170667: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.06.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Bisatoceratidae
Bisatoceras cf. greenei Miller and Owen 1939 ammonite