Also known as Melville Peninsula, north of Hall Beach, Bad Cache Rapids Formation

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (68.8° N, 81.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° S, 41.9° W)

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• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Amorphognathus superbus conodont zone, Amadjuak Formation (Bad Cache Rapids Group), Edenian to Edenian (451.0 - 449.6 Ma)

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Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; brown, gray limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: T. E. Bolton. 1977. Ordovician megafauna, Melville Peninsula, southeastern District of Franklin. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 269:23-75 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26942: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 08.11.2002

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