Cape Phillips North, Cape Phillips Fm, sample CP47 (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Cornwallis Island, Canada (75.6° N, 94.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 32.8° W)

When: Kokelella ranuliformis conodont zone, Cape Phillips Formation, Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: slope; lime mudstone and calcareous shale

• Interbedded lime mudstone and calcareous shale: mudstone shaly to platy, laminated, med-dark grey, some thick (0.1 m) beds; base of centrifugus Zone at 169.6 m; base of murchisoni Zone at 172.0 m; base of instrenuus-kolobus Zone at 175.5 m; CP41-43 from oily shale/mudstone, CP45- 46 graptolite-rich shaly mudstone; instrenuus-kolobus Zone; sample from concretions.

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 211120: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 25.06.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Kockelellidae
Kockelella ranuliformis
Kockelella ranuliformis Walliser 1964 conodont
 Belodellida - Dapsilodontidae
Dapsilodus obliquicostatus
Dapsilodus obliquicostatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Prioniodontida -
Pseudooneotodus bicornis
Pseudooneotodus bicornis Drygant 1974 conodont