GSC 52484, Whitsunday Bay Diapir, Axel Heiberg Island (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (79.2° N, 87.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.4° N, 2.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hare Fiord Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Lower 100 feet of the Hare Fiord Formation, early Atokan (early Moscovian).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Thorsteinsson in 1961; 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 170671: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Prolecanitida - Pronoritidae
Metapronorites ellesmerensis Nassichuk 1975 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae
Neogastrioceras arcticum Nassichuk 1975 ammonite