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: Oulodus velicuspis - Plectodina robusta conodont zone, Amadjuak Formation, Edenian to Edenian (451.0 - 449.6 Ma)
• Strata correlating with Red River Formation, Selkirk limestone of Manitoba. Zhang & Pell show that this is the upper part of the Amadjuak
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
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 26342: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 13.10.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Cycloceras (Orthoceras) selkirkense" = Pleurorthoceras selkirkense
"Cycloceras (Orthoceras) selkirkense" = Pleurorthoceras selkirkense Whiteaves 1892 | |
Kionoceras (Orthoceras) magnisulcatum Billings 1857 | |