Where: Nunavut, Canada (79.1° N, 93.4° W: paleocoordinates 68.2° N, 15.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: McConnell Island Formation (Savik Group), Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• Upper Cadoceras bed, 255 feet higher than Tozer's Lower Cadoceras bed. Embry (1984) refines this to the McConnell Island formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by A.A. Ormiston, A.H. McNair; reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: H. Frebold. 1964. The Jurassic faunas of the Canadian Arctic, Cadoceratinae. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 119:1-27more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 236662: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.10.2024

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