Cape Phillips North, Cape Phillips Fm, sample CP57 (Silurian of Canada)

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

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Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Kockelellidae
Kockelella ranuliformis Walliser 1964 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Spathognathodontodae
"Ozarkodina excavata" = Wurmiella excavata
"Ozarkodina excavata" = Wurmiella excavata Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Belodellida - Dapsilodontidae
Dapsilodus obliquicostatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont