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
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 27096: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 16.11.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Conodonta | |
Plectodina aculeata conodont | |
"Acodus mutatus" = Dapsilodus mutatus
"Acodus mutatus" = Dapsilodus mutatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont | |
Panderodus breviusculus conodont
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Belodina compressa Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont | |
Staufferella lindstroemi conodont | |
Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont |