Where: Nunavut, Canada (73.6° N, 94.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.0° N, 0.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hunting Formation, Stenian (1200.0 - 1000.0 Ma)

• From the lower part of the Hunting Formation, an estimated 100 m above the base. The Hunting Formation is thought to be correlative with the "Society Cliffs" (Angmaat/Nanisivik) Formations of the Bylot Basin, which are dated at c. 1047 Ma from 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).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, stromatolitic, cherty/siliceous dolomite

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: permineralized, original carbon, replaced with silica

Collection methods: peel or thin section

• Repository: Harvard University Paleobotany Collection

Primary reference: N. J. Butterfield, A. H. Knoll, and K. Swett. 1990. A bangiophyte red alga from the Proterozoic of arctic Canada. Science 250:104-107 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 227556: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.10.2022

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