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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Receptaculites sp. Defrance 1827 | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
Grewingkia robusta Whiteaves 1896 horn coral | |
Nyctopora sp. Nicholson 1879 tabulate coral | |
Cephalopoda | |
? Oonoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Maclurites manitobensis" = Maclurina manitobensis
"Maclurites manitobensis" = Maclurina manitobensis Whiteaves 1890 snail |