Flett fauna A, Flett Fm., MacKenzie Mountains (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Yukon, Canada (63.9° N, 127.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.8° N, 36.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Flett Formation, Kinderhookian (360.7 - 353.8 Ma)

• "Miss."

Environment/lithology: offshore; calcareous limestone and shale

• "calcareous shale with some limestone beds (underlain by paper thin black shale). Probably shallow, quiet marine, possibly somewhat marginal. bioclastic ls above. BA4."

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Harker. 1963. Carboniferous and Permian rocks, Southwestern District of MacKenzie. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 95:1-91 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 548: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 12.01.1999

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Taxonomic list

• "P. Harker, 1963"
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Michelinia sp. de Koninck 1841 tabulate coral
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Phillipsia sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Amphissitidae
Amphissites sp. Girty 1910 ostracod
 Platycopida - Knoxitidae
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
 Podocopida - Quasillitidae
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
2 species
 Productida - Productidae
Dictyoclostus sp.
originally entered as "Dictyoclostius sp."
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818
2 species
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
Brachythyris sp. M'Coy 1844
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
? Athyris sp.
originally entered as "? Athyris sp."
Cleiothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria sp. King 1850
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
originally entered as "Leda sp."
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Grammysia sp. de Verneuil 1847 clam
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Prionoceratidae
? Imitoceras sp. Schindewolf 1923 ammonite
originally entered as "? Imitoceras sp."