Ordovician, Air Force Island, Nunavut (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (68.0° N, 74.0° W: paleocoordinates 6.6° S, 40.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Ordovician to Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 443.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.
• Found in limestone rubble on the beach.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. K. Miller, W. Youngquist, and C. Collinson. 1954. Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island. Geological Society of America Memoir 62:1-234 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24219: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 02.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
  - Receptaculitidae