Also known as Pink Band
Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (60.3° N, 68.0° W: paleocoordinates 12.0° S, 37.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Aphelognathus grandis conodont zone, Akpatok Formation, Richmondian (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
• Unnamed sequence; 460 ft above sea level. Was Edenian - Richmondian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: red, white limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. E. Bolton. 1988. Stromatoporoidea from the Ordovician rocks of central and eastern Canada. Contributions to Canadian paleontology, Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 379:17-45 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 27193: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 21.11.2002, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Hormotoma rudis d'Eichwald 1860 snail | |
"Hormotoma groenlandica" = Cyrtostropha salteri
"Hormotoma groenlandica" = Cyrtostropha salteri Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
"Lophospira minuta n. sp." = Lophospira milleri, "Lophospira vermetus" = Loxoplocus vermetus, "Lophospira grandis n. sp." = Paupospira akpatokensis
"Lophospira minuta n. sp." = Lophospira milleri Miller 1877 snail
"Lophospira vermetus" = Loxoplocus vermetus Koken 1897 snail
"Lophospira grandis n. sp." = Paupospira akpatokensis Wilson 1939 snail | |
Trochonema coxi n. sp.
Trochonema coxi n. sp. Wilson 1938 snail | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
"Beatricea cf. nodulifera" = Aulacera
"Beatricea cf. nodulifera" = Aulacera stromatoporoid sponge |