Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (68.7° N, 81.9° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° 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 26955: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 09.11.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chlorophyceae | |
Receptaculites sp. Defrance 1827 | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Cyrtocerina sp. Billings 1865 | |
Gastropoda | |
Trochonema sp. Salter 1859 snail | |
"Subulites (Fusispira) sp." = Fusispira
"Subulites (Fusispira) sp." = Fusispira Hall 1872 snail | |
Trilobita | |
Sphaerocoryphe sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Grewingkia sp. Dybowski 1873 horn coral |