South side of Ibbett Bay, Melville Island (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (75.4° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.3° S, 23.3° W)

When: Melville Island Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. T. Tozer in 1954; reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: A. R. Ormiston. 1967. Lower and Middle Devonian trilobites of the Canadian arctic islands. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 153:1-148 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 216592: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.12.2020

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
"Dechenella (Dechenella) aff. struvei" = Dechenella struvei, "Dechenella (Pedinodechenella) melvillensis n. sp." = Pedinodechenella melvillensis
"Dechenella (Dechenella) aff. struvei" = Dechenella struvei Richter and Richter 1950 trilobite
Dechenella (Dechenella) n. sp. A, aff. struvei
"Dechenella (Pedinodechenella) melvillensis n. sp." = Pedinodechenella melvillensis Ormiston 1967 trilobite