• Deposits in this region are of two general kinds: shallow-water stable carbonate platform (generally in the NW part of Arctic Archipelago) and deeper basinal facies (generally to the SE). This collection is in the former. This is in Smith's Plicogypa-Atrypa Community. "Common notable additional memebers of the fauna are fish, gastropods, and pelecypods. Rare constituents are ostracodes and solitary corals...Notable here is the absence of echinoderm fragments, colonial corals, calcareous algae, or bryozoa which are generally associated with brachiopods of this type. The community is found in very highly argillaceous silty, thin-bedded lime-mudstone. It thrived in a quiet, possibly pretected-water environment as shown by the lack of organisms commonly associated with the normal marine fauans. Most of the brachiopod taxa are of the type that did not possess a functional pedicle and presumably lived unattached on the soft muds of the sea bottom." "This complex section represents a broad shallowing-trend with minor reversals from its basal beds which were deposited in a quiet-water, subtidal environemnt. The topmost beds were deposited in a high energy, shallow environment, as indicated by the presence of fragments of colonial corals and stromatoporoids."

•SEP environmental call based on given info and regional context

• Section in general: "Section 8 contains varied and complex lithologies. The basal beds are highly argillaceous, thin bedded, fossiliferous lime mudstone. These exhibit channeling within thin to med. bedded, well cemmented calcareous siltstones which contain angular quartz. The siltstones are devoid of megafauna except for a few beds that contain fare diarticulated brachiopods and poorly preserved fish remains. These channels may have been formed on shallow-subtidal areas. Higher upsection, these two units are interbedded in places, and in others the argillaceous lime-mudstone units are channel infillings within the...siltstone...etc. etc." This unit: "Sandstone: very fine grained,platy, lenticular; med. lt grey, weathering brownish grey to dusky yellow; red-orange stains on bedding planes, moderately indurated, recessive unit,rare dark grey laminations..one large trilobite pygidium from float"