Ordovician and Silurian Forms, Nettilling Lake (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (66.5° N, 70.8° W: paleocoordinates 6.9° S, 38.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Ordovician (458.4 - 443.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 24228: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 02.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• From Kindle 1896.
Cephalopoda
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
"Maclurea magna" = Maclurites magnus
"Maclurea magna" = Maclurites magnus Le Sueur 1818 snail
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
"? Zaphrentis sp." = Zaphrenthis
"? Zaphrentis sp." = Zaphrenthis Rafinesque and Clifford 1820 horn coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
"Halysites catenulatus" = Halysites catenularius
"Halysites catenulatus" = Halysites catenularius Linnaeus 1767 tabulate coral