Mackenzie, Fish Creek Section Unit 7, Vunta Fm (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (67.9° N, 136.6° W: paleocoordinates 12.0° N, 47.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Collection taken from 4940 feet above base.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray limestone

• "Limestone, aphanitic with some very finely crystalline somewhat bioclastic limestone, light grey, grey, and dark grey, weathers light grey with buff stains, resistant, bedding 1 foot to 10 feet."

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Collection also includes echinoderm, trilobite, and brachiopod fragments and a solitary coral.

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 25659: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 19.09.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
? Lissocoelina sp.
? Lissocoelina sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora sp.
Catenipora sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral