Cape Griffith Fauna (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (70.0° N, 81.0° W: paleocoordinates 3.6° S, 41.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Ordovician to Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 443.4 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 24223: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 02.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Recorded by Teichert.
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Cephalopoda
 Discosorida - Westonoceratidae
Teichertoceras sp. Foerste 1933
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae