District of Mackenzie, Fish Creek Section Unit 8, Vunta Fm (Silurian-Devonian) (Silurian to of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (67.9° N, 136.6° W: paleocoordinates 3.1° S, 35.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vunta Formation, Silurian to Silurian (443.8 - 419.2 Ma)

• Collection taken from 5404-5406 feet above base.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray limestone

• "Limestone, very finely crystalline to finely crystalline, with some aphanitic beds, grey and dark grey, weathers light grey, grey, with buff stains, moderately resistant, bedding 1 foot to 8 feet, commonly weathering platy or rubbly."

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: chemical,

• Collection also includes unidentified leperditiid ostracod. Identified by Copeland.

Primary reference: B. S. Norford. 1963. Reconnaissance of the Ordovician and Silurian rocks of Northern Yukon Territory. Geological Survey of Canada Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Paper 63(39):1-139 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25650: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 19.09.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
cf. Leperditia sp.
cf. Leperditia sp. Rouault 1851 ostracod