Pressure Point, east (Silurian of Canada)
Where: Nunavut, Canada (74.0° N, 95.2° W: paleocoordinates 0.4° N, 31.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Somerset Island Formation, Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)
• early Pridolian
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, white sandstone
• grey, white, and buff, coarse to fine-grained, crossbedded sandstone.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. K. Elliott and S. Swift. 2010. A new species of Ariaspis (Agnatha, Heterostraci) from the Late Silurian of the Canadian Arctic. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(6):1874-1878 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 185830: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 19.05.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Pteraspidomorpha | |
Ariaspis arctata n. sp.
Ariaspis arctata n. sp. Elliott and Swift 2010 | |