Northern Prince Wales Island (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Nunavat, Canada (73.8° N, 98.5° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° S, 29.7° W)

When: Peel Sound Formation, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; lithified, lenticular, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone and lithified, brown marl

• The environmental setting was probably a non-marine, alluvial fan system (Broad et al. 1968), whereby the marine Douro Formation grades into the Peel Sound

•Formation

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Lamsdell, S. Braddy, E. Loeffler and D. Dineley. 2010. Early Devonian stylonurine eurypterids from Arctic Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 47(11):1405-1415 [R. Plotnick/S. Weinberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204935: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Seth Weinberg on 26.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• The sequence yields abundant large pteraspids, Ctenaspis,

•arthrodires (Arctolepida), acanthodian spines, possible antiarchs,

•vascular plants, ostracods, and both stylonurid and pterygotid eurypterids

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Pteraspidomorphi
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Pteraspidomorphi indet.
Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Rhenopteridae
Leiopterella tetliei
Leiopterella tetliei Lamsdell et al. 2010 eurypterid
 Eurypterida - Stylonuridae
Pagea plotnicki
Pagea plotnicki Lamsdell et al. 2010 eurypterid
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod