Nettilling Lake Area, Unspecified Locality (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (66.5° N, 70.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.5° S, 40.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-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 24240: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 02.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Studied and identified by Wislon (1928; 1931).
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Chlorophyceae
  - Receptaculitidae
Receptaculites sp.
Receptaculites sp. Defrance 1827
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
? Streptelasma arcticum
? Streptelasma arcticum Wilson 1931 horn coral
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira sp.
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
"Maclurites manitobensis" = Maclurina manitobensis
"Maclurites manitobensis" = Maclurina manitobensis Whiteaves 1890 snail
Cephalopoda
 Discosorida - Westonoceratidae
Westonoceras sp.
Westonoceras sp. Foerste 1924
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Ephippiorthoceras sp.
Ephippiorthoceras sp. Foerste 1924
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras sp.
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
 Actinocerida - Ormoceratidae
? Ormoceras sp.
? Ormoceras sp. Stokes 1840
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
? Endoceras sp.
? Endoceras sp. Hall 1847
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
poorly preserved bryozoans