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 (460.9 - 443.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology: brown limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: chemical, sieve,
• Some graptolites from Climacograptus manitoulinenensis Zone also included. 602 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 26102: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 03.10.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Belodina confluens Sweet 1979 conodont | |
Coelocerodontus trigonius Ethington 1959 conodont | |
Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
? Paroistodus sp. Lindström 1971 conodont |