GSC C-1872, Weatherall Bay, Melville Island (Permian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (75.9° N, 107.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 3.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Assistance Formation, Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• no lithologic description

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1971. The brachiopod genus Tomiopsis Benedictova from the Permian of Canada. Journal of Paleontology 45(1):68-80 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/L. Fall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52143: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 27.07.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Terrakea arctica1 Waterhouse 1971
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
Tomiopsis (Ambikella) bamberi n. sp.2 Waterhouse 1998