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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Rhacophyllites sp. Zittel 1884 ammonite |