Akpatok Island, Section 5, GSC Loc. C-147499 (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (60.4° N, 68.3° W: paleocoordinates 13.3° S, 39.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shermanian to Shermanian (457.3 - 443.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: brown limestone

• "[O]range-brown limestone beds beneath which is exposed about 35 m of fine-grained brown limestone, locally rich in organic material."

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: chemical, sieve,

• Some graptolites from Climacograptus manitoulinenensis Zone also included. 1530 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 26101: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 03.10.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Belodina confluens, Panderodus gracilis, ? Pseudobelodina dispansa
Belodina confluens Sweet 1979 conodont
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
? Pseudobelodina dispansa Glenister 1957 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
Plectodina tenuis
 Prioniodontida -
Pseudooneotodus aff. beckmanni, Pseudooneotodus mitratus
Pseudooneotodus aff. beckmanni Bischoff and Sannemann 1958 conodont
Pseudooneotodus mitratus Moskalenko 1973 conodont
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Coelocerodontus trigonius
Coelocerodontus trigonius Ethington 1959 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
? Paroistodus sp., Drepanoistodus suberectus
? Paroistodus sp. Lindström 1971 conodont
Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont