Rookery Creek (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (75.4° N, 95.8° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 37.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Orthograptus fastigatus graptolite zone, Irene Bay Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• Originally given as Cape Phillips.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: M. J. Melchin. 1987. Upper Ordovician graptolites from the Cape Phillips Formation, Canadian Arctic Islands. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 35:191-202 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184421: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.02.2017

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Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
Orthograptus fastigatus Davies 1929 graptolite
Orthograptus thorsteinssoni Melchin 1987 graptolite