Baffin Island, Jordan River, GSC Loc. C-151097 (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (64.0° N, 69.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° S, 39.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Edenian to Edenian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal

• Organic-rich carbonates.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: chemical, sieve,

• From 503 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 26100: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 03.10.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
? Paroistodus sp. Lindström 1971 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Protopanderodus liripipus Kennedy et al. 1979 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
Periodon grandis Ethington 1959 conodont
 Prioniodontida -
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont