GSC 37975, Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island (Triassic to of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (80.1° N, 86.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 13.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Shale Member (Blaa Mountain Formation), Tuvalian to Tuvalian (232.0 - 232.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Thorsteinsson in 1956; reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: E. T. Tozer. 1994. Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 467:1-663 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57084: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 02.12.2005

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Discophyllitidae
Rhacophyllites sp. Zittel 1884 ammonite