Baffin Island, Amadjuak Lake, GSC Loc. C-151099 (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (65.3° N, 71.7° W: paleocoordinates 9.0° S, 40.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Edenian to Edenian (451.0 - 449.6 Ma)

• Two meters above C-151098.

Environment/lithology:

• Organic-rich carbonate units.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: chemical, sieve,

• 21 g of dissolved material.

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 26099: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 03.10.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Amorphognathus sp. Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Prioniodontida -
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus spp. Ethington 1959 conodont
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
Periodon grandis Ethington 1959 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont