GSC C10760, Blue Mountains, Ellesmere Island (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (80.7° N, 85.7° W: paleocoordinates 26.4° N, 0.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 25 feet below top. Early Atokan (early Moscovian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W.W. Nassichuk, G.R. Davies in 1971; 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 170702: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae
Syngastrioceras constrictum Nassichuk 1975 ammonite