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:
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 | |
Amorphognathus sp. Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont | |
Phragmodus undatus conodont | |
Panderodus spp. Ethington 1959 conodont
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont | |
Periodon grandis Ethington 1959 conodont | |
Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont |