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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Pterobranchia | |
Orthograptus fastigatus Davies 1929 graptolite
Orthograptus thorsteinssoni Melchin 1987 graptolite |