GSC 51629, Strand Fiord, Axel Heiberg Island (Jurassic of Canada)

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)

• Lower Cadoceras bed, 255 feet lower than Ormiston and McNair's Upper 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 E.T. Tozer in 1962; 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 236665: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.10.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Cardioceratidae
Cadoceras cf. falsum Voronets 1962 ammonite
Cadoceras bodylevskyi n. sp. Frebold 1964 ammonite
Cadoceras barnstoni arcuata Frebold 1964 ammonite