Rowley Island Cephalopods (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (69.1° N, 78.9° W: paleocoordinates 4.8° S, 41.7° 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

Collection methods: Corals, brachiopods, gastropods, and trilobites found but not described.

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 24222: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 02.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Listed by Burns.
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Cephalopoda
 Discosorida - Cyrtogomphoceratidae
? Cyrtogomphoceras sp.
 Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae
? Dowlingoceras sp.
? Dowlingoceras sp. Foerste 1928
 Barrandeocerida - Plectoceratidae
? Plectoceras sp.
? Plectoceras sp. Hyatt 1884