Cape Nares/Eglinton Island, C-156068 (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (75.6° N, 119.4° W: paleocoordinates 78.6° N, 24.2° W)

When: Lower Shale Member (Kanguk Formation), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. M. Tapia and D. M. Harwood. 2002. Upper Cretaceous diatom biostratigraphy of the Arctic archipelago and northern continental margin, Canada. Micropaleontology 48(4):303-342 [C. Cervato/C. Cervato]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57217: authorized by Cinzia Cervato, entered by Cinzia Cervato on 13.12.2005

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Gladiopsis sp.
Hemiaulus
  - Biddulphiaceae
Hemiaulus sp.
Hemiaulus sp. Ehrenberg 1844
Hemiaulus spp.
Bacillariophyceae
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Goniothecium odontella, Costopyxis sp.
Costopyxis sp. Glezer 1984 diatom
Costopyxis spp.
 Coscinodiscales - Coscinodiscaceae
Coscinodiscus sp.
Coscinodiscus sp. Ehrenberg 1839 diatom