Eurypterid-Associated Biota of the Read Bay Fm., Member B, Cornwallis Island (Silurian of Canada)

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

• "BA 2-3. Sheltered, nearshore marine"

•SEP environmental call based on given info.

• "gray-black shale"

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
  -
 Eukaryota -
Acritarcha indet. Evitt 1963 acritarchs
unclassified
  -
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"diverse trilete spores"
Cephalopoda
  -
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Bivalvia
  -
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida -
Orthida indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1932
 Spiriferida -
Spiriferida indet. Waagen 1883
Lingulata
  -
Lingulata indet. Gorjansky and Popov 1985
"lingulid"
Eurypterida
 Eurypterida -
Eurypterida indet. Burmeister 1843 eurypterid
"cuticular fragments; possibly Eurypterus or Baltoeurypterus"
Malacostraca
 Life -
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Pteraspidomorphi
 Pteraspidomorphes -
Pteraspidomorphes indet.
"vertebrates (cyathaspids)"
 Life -
Chitinozoa indet. Nõlvak 2007