Abbot River East Section, ARE 1 (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (75.2° N, 95.5° W: paleocoordinates 4.7° N, 34.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pterospathodus amorphognathoides conodont zone, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: slope; calcareous shale and lime mudstone

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 211225: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 25.06.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Walliserodus cf. sancticlairi Cooper 1976 conodont
Belodella sp. Ethington 1959 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
Ozarkodina hadra Nicoll and Rexroad 1968 conodont
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus unicostatus, "Panderodus recurvatus" = Panderodus panderi
Panderodus unicostatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
"Panderodus recurvatus" = Panderodus panderi Stauffer 1940 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Prioniodinidae
Aspelundia fluegeli Walliser 1964 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Pterospathodus pennatus Walliser 1964 conodont
Pterospathodus pennatus procerus
Pterospathodus rhodesi Savage 1985 conodont
Pterospathodus amorphognathoides Walliser 1964 conodont