GSC 56429, Blue Mountains, Ellesmere Island (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (80.8° N, 85.5° 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)

• In red beds overlying the Tellevak Limestone. Late Atokan (early Moscovian).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Bonham-Carter in 1963; 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 170720: 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