Where: Nunavut, Canada (72.2° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.0° N, 0.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Angmaat Formation (Uluksan Group), Stenian (1200.0 - 1000.0 Ma)
• Formerly assigned to the Society Cliffs Formation, which was separated into four units by Turner (2009). Based on the mapped location, this collection belongs to the Angmaat Formation. The age of the former Society Cliffs Formation is constrained by Re-Os dating of the underlying Arctic Bay Formation (1.048 +/- 0.012 Ga) and the overlying Victor Bay Formation (1.046 +/- 0.016 Ga) in Gibson et al., 2017.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, stromatolitic, cherty/siliceous dolomite
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: permineralized, original carbon, replaced with silica
Reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: peel or thin section
Primary reference: H. J. Hofmann and G. D. Jackson. 1991. Shelf-facies microfossils from the Uluksan Group (Proterozoic Bylot Supergroup), Baffin Island, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 65:361-382 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 227552: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.10.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hormogoneae | |
Siphonophycus inornatum, "Eomycetopsis robusta" = Siphonophycus robustum
Siphonophycus inornatum Zhang 1981
"Eomycetopsis robusta" = Siphonophycus robustum Schopf 1968 |