Cape Phillips North, Cape Phillips Fm, sample CP30 (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Cornwallis Island, Canada (75.6° N, 94.5° W: paleocoordinates 4.8° N, 34.3° W)

When: Pterospathodus pennatus procerus conodont zone, Cape Phillips Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: slope; lime mudstone and grainstone

• Lime mudstone: platy to thin-bedded, laminated, shaly partings; some irregularly bedded lime grainstone with uncompressed graptolites, concretions common and abundant near top

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 211111: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 25.06.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Walliserodus cf. sancticlairi
Walliserodus cf. sancticlairi Cooper 1976 conodont
 Prioniodontida -
Pseudooneotodus beckmanni
Pseudooneotodus beckmanni Bischoff and Sannemann 1958 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Pterospathodus pennatus
Pterospathodus pennatus Walliser 1964 conodont
Pterospathodus pennatus procerus