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 | |
Cadoceras cf. falsum Voronets 1962 ammonite
Cadoceras bodylevskyi n. sp. Frebold 1964 ammonite
Cadoceras barnstoni arcuata Frebold 1964 ammonite |