Where: Nunavut, Canada (74.6° N, 97.6° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 22.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Polygnathus inversus conodont zone, Middle Member (Disappointment Bay Formation), Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• Three collections, C2681, C2682, and C3217, are in increasing stratigraphic order, the first from the lowest of three members, the second two from the middle member. C3217 seen as correlative with Elythyna beds of Nevada and conodont zone 9 of Klapper et al. 1971.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; dolomite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: J. G. Johnson. 1975. Late Early Devonian brachiopods from the Disappointment Bay Formation, Lowther Island, Arctic Canada. Journal of Paleontology 49(6):947-978 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26625: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 18.10.2002, edited by Pete Wagner

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