Blind Fiord Fm - GSC 64719, Axel Heiberg Island (Triassic of Canada)

Also known as Locality 155

Where: Nunavut, Canada (81.4° N, 93.5° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 3.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blind Fiord Formation, Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• AGE: Spathian, Pilaticus Zone. LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Blind Fiord Formation. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Concretions individually numbered from about the same level, approximately the level of GSC locality 64719.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• ENVIRONMENT: No environmental data reported in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: No lithologic data reported in text

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: E.T. Tozer (1964). REPOSITORY: Presumably GSC (Geological Survey of Canada).

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 61969: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Not exhaustive. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, though list is revised from earlier published invesigations (e.g. Tozer, 1967, p. 48).
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Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Keyserlingitidae
"Olenikites pilaticus" = Subolenekites pilaticus
"Olenikites pilaticus" = Subolenekites pilaticus Tozer 1967 ceratite