Where: Nunavut, Canada (76.0° N, 99.0° W: paleocoordinates 8.7° S, 19.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Blue Fiord Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and calcareous shale
•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
Collection methods: Includes taxa not mentioned in measured sections.
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 26596: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 18.10.2002, edited by Melanie Hopkins and Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Zonophyllum aff. solidum horn coral | |
"Dialytophyllum cf. complicatum" = Mesophyllum (Dialytophyllum), Digonophyllum (Zonodigonophyllum) sp., Digonophyllum (Digonophyllum) cf. schulzi, Lekanophyllum cf. kayseri
Digonophyllum (Zonodigonophyllum) sp. Vollbrecht 1926 horn coral
Digonophyllum (Digonophyllum) cf. schulzi horn coral
Lekanophyllum cf. kayseri horn coral | |
Trilobita | |
"Leonaspis (Kettneraspis) elliptica" = Kettneraspis elliptica Burmeister 1843 trilobite
Leonaspis sp. Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite
Leonaspis eremia trilobite | |
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Scutellum depressum trilobite
Ancyropyge arcticus trilobite | |
"Dechenella (Dechenella) paragranulata" = Aayemenaytcheia paragranulata, "Dechenella (Dechenella) tesca" = Ormistonia tesca, Schizoproetoides sp., Dechenella (Dechenella) paramaclareni n. sp., Dechenella (Dechenella) maclareni, Dechenella (Dechenella) franklini, "Dechenella (Dechenella) aff. planimarginata" = Dechenella planimarginata, Dechenella perscheii1, "Dechenella (Dechenella) retusa" = Humeia retusa, Deltadechenella bathurstensis n. gen. n. sp.
"Dechenella (Dechenella) paragranulata" = Aayemenaytcheia paragranulata Ormiston 1967 trilobite
"Dechenella (Dechenella) tesca" = Ormistonia tesca Ormiston 1967 trilobite
Schizoproetoides sp. Ormiston 1967 trilobite
Dechenella (Dechenella) paramaclareni n. sp. Ormiston 1967 trilobite
Dechenella (Dechenella) maclareni Ormiston 1967 trilobite
Dechenella (Dechenella) franklini Ormiston 1967 trilobite
"Dechenella (Dechenella) aff. planimarginata" = Dechenella planimarginata Meek 1871 trilobite
"Dechenella (Dechenella) retusa" = Humeia retusa Ormiston 1967 trilobite
Deltadechenella bathurstensis n. gen. n. sp. Ormiston 1967 trilobite | |
Astycoryphe cimelia n. sp.
Astycoryphe cimelia n. sp. trilobite | |
Otarion "sp. A" Zenker 1833 trilobite
Otarion balanops Erben 1953 trilobite | |
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