Where: Nunavut, Canada (75.0° N, 95.0° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° N, 30.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: B Member (Read Bay Formation), Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; black, gray shale
•SEP environmental call based on given info.
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 26883: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 07.11.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Acritarcha indet. Evitt 1963 acritarchs | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Lingulata | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Spiriferida indet. Waagen 1883 | |
Orthida indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1932 | |
Eurypterida | |
Eurypterida indet. Burmeister 1843 eurypterid "cuticular fragments; possibly Eurypterus or Baltoeurypterus"
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Malacostraca | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Pteraspidomorphi | |
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Chitinozoa | |
Chitinozoa indet. Nõlvak 2007 |