Melville Peninsula, north end of Hall Lake, Bad Cache Rapids Formation (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (68.9° N, 82.3° W: paleocoordinates 3.8° S, 42.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bad Cache Rapids Formation, Wildernessian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• argillaceous partings in brown limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

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 26945: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 09.11.2002

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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"Isotelid" sp.
Chlorophyceae
  - Receptaculitidae
Receptaculites sp.
Receptaculites sp. Defrance 1827
Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet.
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Grewingkia robusta
Grewingkia robusta Whiteaves 1896 horn coral
 Lichenariida - Lyoporidae
Nyctopora sp.
Nyctopora sp. Nicholson 1879 tabulate coral
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Gorbyoceras baffinense
 Oncocerida - Oonoceratidae
? Oonoceras sp.
? Oonoceras sp. Hyatt 1884
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
"Maclurites manitobensis" = Maclurina manitobensis
"Maclurites manitobensis" = Maclurina manitobensis Whiteaves 1890 snail