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 27097: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 16.11.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont | |
Drepanoistodus suberectus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont | |
Staufferella lindstroemi conodont
Protopanderodus insculptus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont |