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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Westonoceras (Cyrtoceras) manitobense Whiteaves 1890
Winnipegoceras (Cyrtoceras) laticurvatum Whiteaves 1897 | |
? Trochoceras mccharlesi nautiloid | |