Where: Cornwallis Island, Canada (75.6° N, 94.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 32.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Kokelella ranuliformis conodont zone, Cape Phillips Formation, Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lime mudstone and calcareous shale
Size class: microfossils
Primary reference: S. Zhang, D. Jowett, and C. Barnes. 2017. Hirnantian (Ordovician) through Wenlock (Silurian) conodont biostratigraphy, bioevents, and integration with graptolite biozones, Cape Phillips Formation slope facies, Cornwallis Island, Canadian Arctic Islands. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 54(9):936-960 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 210887: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 21.06.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Kockelella ranuliformis Walliser 1964 conodont | |
"Ozarkodina excavata" = Wurmiella excavata
"Ozarkodina excavata" = Wurmiella excavata Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont | |
Dapsilodus obliquicostatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont |