Where: Nunavut, Canada (76.3° N, 99.3° W: paleocoordinates 8.4° S, 19.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Blue Fiord Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)
• "Unit n" [from bottom] is my terminology, not Ormiston's. Unit is 35 feet thick.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; argillaceous limestone and limestone
•SEP: From Rose (1999) Sedimentology and diagenesis of the lower Blue Fiord Formation carbonates in a prospective mississippi valley-type (Pb-Zn) setting, Bathurst Island, N.W.T. Univ. of Calgary MS thesis: "The Devonian Blue Fiord Formation (Emsian-Eifelian) consists of subtidal to supratidal carbonates deposited on a wide platform shelf. It is divided into three informal members based on facies associations; BF (sub 1) (Subtidal Restricted), BF (sub 2) (Lagoonal-Tidal Flat), and BF (sub 3) (Subtidal Open/Restricted). "
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. R. Ormiston. 1967. Lower and Middle Devonian trilobites of the Canadian arctic islands. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 153:1-148 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 26585: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 18.10.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Inarticulata | |
Strophomenata | |
Trilobita | |
"Dechenella paragranulata" = Aayemenaytcheia paragranulata, ? Deltadechenella sp.
"Dechenella paragranulata" = Aayemenaytcheia paragranulata Ormiston 1967 trilobite
? Deltadechenella sp. Ormiston 1967 trilobite |