Cape Phillips North, Cape Phillips Fm, sample CP51 (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; instrenuus-kolobus Zone

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 211124: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 25.06.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Mayrodus melchini
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Kockelellidae
Kockelella ranuliformis
Kockelella ranuliformis Walliser 1964 conodont
 Belodellida - Dapsilodontidae
Dapsilodus obliquicostatus
Dapsilodus obliquicostatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont