Putnam Highland (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as Putnam Highland, Strata Correlating to Red River Fm, Dog Head Limestone

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (65.3° N, 73.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.7° S, 40.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Belodina confluens conodont zone, Amadjuak Formation, Edenian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• Strata correlating with Red River Formation, Dog Head limestone of Manitoba. Zhang & Pell (2014) give this as the lower part of the Amadjuak

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. M. Gould, A. F. Foerste, and R. C. Hussey. 1928. Contributions to the geology of Foxe Land, Baffin Island. In E. S. McCartney (ed.), Michigan University Contributions from the Museum of Geology 3:19-76 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26340: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 13.10.2002

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Tarphycerida - Trocholitidae
 Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae
 Multiceratoidea - Apsidoceratidae
 Discosorida - Westonoceratidae
 Discosorida - Cyrtogomphoceratidae
 Ascocerida - Ascoceratidae
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
 Nautilida - Rutoceratidae
 Actinocerida - Actinoceratidae
 Actinocerida - Ormoceratidae
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae