Markham Bay, Baffin Island (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (63.5° N, 71.7° W: paleocoordinates 11.1° S, 41.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Fossils found in the "drift" along the southern coast of Baffin Island.

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 24244: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 02.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Wilson, 1928.
unclassified
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"Stromatoporid" sp.
Stromatoporid fragment
Cephalopoda
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
? Cyclendoceras sp. Grabau and Shimer 1910
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Streptelasma sp. Hall 1847 horn coral