GSC 47550, Spath Creek (SCN), Ellesmere Island (Triassic of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (80.9° N, 89.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 5.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: caurus ammonoid zone, Lower Shale Member (Blaa Mountain Formation), Aegean (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black, gray shale and lithified, calcareous siltstone

• dark grey and black shale with beds of orange weathering, calcareous siltstone and large concretions of calcareous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Thorsteinsson, E.T. Tozer in 1961; reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: E. T. Tozer. 1965. Latest Lower Triassic Ammonoids from Ellesmere Island and Northeastern British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 123:1-45 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44048: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 31.08.2004, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Longobarditidae
Pearylandites sp., Lenotropites ellesmerensis n. sp.
Pearylandites sp. Kummel 1953 ceratite
Lenotropites ellesmerensis n. sp. Tozer 1994 ceratite