Østre Börgen, east shore of Goose Fjord. Ellesmere Island (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (76.6° N, 88.6° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° S, 17.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Disappointment Bay Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• Archaic name "Db" given for formation. Should be Disappointment Bay now.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I.P. Tolmachoff. 1930. On the fossil faunas from Per Schei’s Series D from Ellesmere Land with exception of brachiopods, corals and cephalopods. Report on the second Norwegian Arctic expedition in the “Fram” 1898-1902 38:1-106 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56276: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

Tergomya
 Archinacellida - Metoptomatidae
"Lepetopsis devonica" = Calloconus devonica, "Lepetopsis concentrica" = Calloconus concentrica, "Lepetopsis recta" = Calloconus recta
"Lepetopsis devonica" = Calloconus devonica Tolmachoff 1930
"Lepetopsis concentrica" = Calloconus concentrica Tolmachoff 1930
"Lepetopsis recta" = Calloconus recta Tolmachoff 1930
Gastropoda
 Cyrtoneritida - Orthonychiidae
Orthonychia talon Tolmachoff 1930 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon sverdrupi, "Bellerophon carinatus" = Retispira carinatus, "Bucanopsis reticulatus" = Retispira reticulatus
Bellerophon sverdrupi Tolmachoff 1930 snail
"Bellerophon carinatus" = Retispira carinatus Tolmachoff 1930 snail
"Bucanopsis reticulatus" = Retispira reticulatus Tolmachoff 1930 snail
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
"Lophospira arctica" = Murchisonia arctica
"Lophospira arctica" = Murchisonia arctica Tolmachoff 1930 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Loxonema stylum Tolmachoff 1930 snail
 Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
Macrochilina whidborni, "Macrochilina fusoidalis" = Bensbergia fusoidalis
Macrochilina whidborni Tolmachoff 1930 snail
"Macrochilina fusoidalis" = Bensbergia fusoidalis Tolmachoff 1930 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Euryzone striata" = Devonorhineoderma striata Tolmachoff 1930 snail
Euryzone intermedia Tolmachoff 1930 snail
 Euomphalina - Omphalocirridae
"Arctomphalus grandis" = Omphalocirrus grandis
"Arctomphalus grandis" = Omphalocirrus grandis Tolmachoff 1930 snail
 Euomphalina - Elasmonematidae
"Callonema gracilis" = Elasmonema gracilis
"Callonema gracilis" = Elasmonema gracilis Tolmachoff 1930 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Euomphalus sinister Tolmachoff 1930 snail
Euomphalus tuberculatus Tolmachoff 1930 snail
"Philoxene serpens" = Philoxene laevis d’Archiac and de Verneuil 1842 snail
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
Naticopsis minuta Tolmachoff 1930 snail