Where: Nunavut, Canada (81.0° N, 87.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 2.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Blind Fiord Formation, Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)
• Spathian, Subrobustus Zone, Blind Fiord Formation
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: E. T. Tozer. 1961. Triassic stratigraphy and faunas, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Arctic Archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 316:1-116 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 43853: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 27.08.2004, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Olenikites triton Tozer 1994 ceratite
Olenikites bombus Tozer 1994 ceratite
Olenikites canadensis n. sp. Tozer 1961 ceratite
Svalbardiceras freboldi Tozer 1965 ceratite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Posidonia aranea" = Ellesmerella aranea
"Posidonia aranea" = Ellesmerella aranea Tozer 1961 oyster |