Baird Peninsula Fauna (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (68.9° N, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.5° S, 40.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Ordovician to Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 443.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

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 24221: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 02.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Collected by C. Merrill and D. Coombs. Identified by Wilson.
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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Streptelasma sp.
Streptelasma sp. Hall 1847 horn coral
Cephalopoda
 Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae
Diestoceras sp.
Diestoceras sp. Foerste 1924
 Actinocerida - Armenoceratidae
Armenoceras sp.
Armenoceras sp. Foerste 1924
 Actinocerida - Gonioceratidae
Lambeoceras sp.
Lambeoceras sp. Foerste 1917
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites sp.
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail
 Murchisoniina - Trochonematidae
Trochonema sp.
Trochonema sp. Salter 1859 snail