Where: Ontario, Canada (43.1° N, 81.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.7° S, 28.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Arkona Shale Formation, Middle Devonian (393.3 - 382.7 Ma)

• Middle Devonian Arkona Shale, about fifteen feet below top of the formation, a thin lens (about 3.2 cm greatest thickness). A thin lens of crinoidal "hash" on which were exceptional numbers of platycerid gastropods.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Denis Thorn in 1968; reposited in the UMMP

Primary reference: R. V. Kesling. 1969. A new Brittle-star from the Middle Devonian Arkona Shale of Ontario. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 23(2):37-51 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193694: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 03.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)