Where: Nunavut, Canada (75.0° N, 95.0° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° N, 31.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: A Member (Read Bay Formation), Wenlock to Wenlock (433.4 - 423.0 Ma)
• "Late Wenlockian-Early Ludlovian? Cape Storm Formation (=Read Bay Formation, lower part of Member A).
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; argillaceous limestone
•SEP environmental call based on given info. in ref. PBDB 6632
Primary reference: R. E. Plotnick. 1999. Habitat of Llandoverian-Lochkovian eurypterids. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 106-136 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 26882: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 07.11.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Euchelicerata | |
Erieopterus laticeps eurypterid | |
"Baltoeurypterus tetragonophthalmus" = Eurypterus tetragonophthalmus
"Baltoeurypterus tetragonophthalmus" = Eurypterus tetragonophthalmus Fischer 1839 eurypterid | |
Pteraspidomorpha | |
Pterobranchia | |
"Monograptus testis" = Testograptus testis
"Monograptus testis" = Testograptus testis Barrande 1859 graptolite | |
Cyrtograptus trilleri graptolite |