Melville Peninsula, GSC loc 89849 sec 21, Bad Cache Rapids Formation (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (68.0° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 3.9° S, 43.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale and limestone

• Environmental call by T. Hanson

Size class: microfossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: chemical,

Primary reference: C. R. Barnes. 1977. Ordovician conodonts from the Ship Point and Bad Cache Rapids Formations, Melville Peninsula, southeastern District of Franklin. Geology of Ordovician rocks, Melville Peninsula and region, southeastern District of Franklin. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 269:99-119 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27095: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 16.11.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus feulneri, Panderodus gracilis
Panderodus feulneri Glenister 1957 conodont
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Drepanoistodus suberectus
Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont