Also known as Gypidula-Atrypa-Schizophoria Community
Where: Nunavut, Canada (76.8° N, 94.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° S, 25.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)
• Unnamed formation about Cape Phillips Formation. "The age of this carbonate unit is early Lochkovian, corresponding to Klapper's faunas 1 and 2."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; gray, argillaceous lime mudstone and gray, argillaceous wackestone
• 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. Smith's Gypidula-Atrypa-Schizophoria Community, which sits in zone 3 in his 6-zone onshore to offshore gradient, shallow to deep subtidal, below wave base.
•SEP environmental call based on given info and regional context
• This part of section as a whole: "Unnamed carbonate unit (at least 500 m thick) which can be broken into three members. The lower member is coposed of thin-bedded argillaceous lime-mudstone containing common argillaceous seams and contains a varied brachiopod fauna as well as corals, gastropods and, in the upper parts, oncoloites....second member consisting of thin to med. bedded silty lime-mudstone containing common to abundant colonial corals as well as bryozoans. The third member is thin to very thin bedded, silty argillaceous lime mudstone containing in places lime mud intraclasts exhibiting sedimentary drape, channeling, as well as what appear to be small-scale ripple marks and common to abundant leperditiid ostracodes." This unit: "Argillaceous lime mudstone-wackestone: thin bedded, undulatory, med. dk. grey to grey-brown...well indurated, argillaceous lenses between beds; common abundant brachiopods...rare trilobites"
Reposited in the GSC
• Smith gives specimen counts.
Primary reference: R. E. Smith. 1980. Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) biostratigraphy and brachiopod faunas, Canadian arctic islands. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 308:1-155 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 26535: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 16.10.2002
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Taxonomic list
• Focus of the entire monograph is on brachiopods. Other taxa mentioned but not necessarily listed in detail.
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| Strophomenata |
| Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae |
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| Rhynchonellata |
| Pentamerida - Gypidulidae |
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| Atrypida - Atrypidae |
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| Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae |
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| Spiriferida - |
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| Spiriferida - Delthyrididae |
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| Rhynchonellida - Hebetoechiidae |
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| Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae |
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| Orthida - Schizophoriidae |
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