Putnam Highland, Foxe Land, Baffin Island (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: Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology:
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 26346: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 13.10.2002
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Taxonomic list
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| Anthozoa | |
"Halysites gracilis" = Catenipora gracilis
"Halysites gracilis" = Catenipora gracilis Hall in Foster and Whitney 1851 tabulate coral | |
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Streptelasma corniculum Hall 1847 horn coral | |
| Ostracoda | |
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Leperditia sp. Rouault 1851 ostracod | |
| Trilobita | |
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Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Rhynchotrema sp. Hall 1860 | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Trochonema sp. Salter 1859 snail | |
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Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail | |
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Fusispira aff. nobilis Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Maclurina sp., Maclurina manitobensis, "Maclurites crassus" = Maclurites crassa, "Maclurina cuneata" = Maclurites cuneata
Maclurina sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Maclurina manitobensis Whiteaves 1890 snail
"Maclurites crassus" = Maclurites crassa Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
"Maclurina cuneata" = Maclurites cuneata Whitfield 1878 snail | |
| Chlorophyceae | |
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Receptaculites sp. Defrance 1827 | |