Putnam Highland, Strata Correlating to Stony Mountain Formation (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (65.3° N, 73.2° W: paleocoordinates 6.6° S, 38.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Aphelognathus grandis conodont zone, Akpatok Formation, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• Strata correlating with Stony Mountain Formation of Manitoba. Zhang & Pell (2014) indicate that this is Akpatok.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithology not reported

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 26343: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 13.10.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Multiceratoidea - Apsidoceratidae
 Ascocerida - Ascoceratidae
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
"Cycloceras (Orthoceras) selkirkense" = Pleurorthoceras selkirkense
"Cycloceras (Orthoceras) selkirkense" = Pleurorthoceras selkirkense Whiteaves 1892