Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (64.0° N, 83.7° W: paleocoordinates 5.6° S, 43.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Red Head Rapids Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• Collection taken from about 5.4 m above base of section.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dolomite and limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: chemical, sieve,

• Dissolved sample mass 3800 g. Graptolites and trilobites identified by Nelson and Johnson from rubble south of the mouth of Sixteen Mile Brook.

Primary reference: A. D. McCracken and G. S. Nowlan. 1989. Conodont paleontology and biostratigraphy of Ordovician carbonates and petroliferous carbonates on Southampton, Baffin, and Akpatok islands in the eastern Canadian Arctic. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 26(10):1880-1903 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26097: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 03.10.2002

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