GSC C4083, Wood Glacier, Ellesmere Island (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (80.9° N, 84.2° W: paleocoordinates 26.3° N, 0.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hare Fiord Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Late Bashkirian or Early Moscovian (Atokan). Early Atokan (early Moscovian) based on ammonoids.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• non-reef facies of Hare Fiord Formation
• thin-bedded, dark grey limestone, about 46 m above the base of Hare Fiord Formation

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: J. L. Carter and V. I. Poletaev. 1998. Atokan (Late Bashkirian or Early Moscovian) brachiopods from the Hare Fiord Formation of Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Annals of Carnegie Museum 67(2):105-180 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62646: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.07.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Choristitidae
Cephalopoda
 Prolecanitida - Pronoritidae
Metapronorites ellesmerensis Nassichuk 1975 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Pseudoparalegoceratidae
Phaneroceras lenticulare Plummer and Scott 1937 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Schistoceratidae
Diaboloceras involutum Nassichuk 1975 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Christioceratidae
Christioceras trifurcatum Nassichuk and Furnish 1965 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Somoholitidae
Somoholites merriami Miller and Furnish 1940 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae
Syngastrioceras sp. Librovitch 1938 ammonite
Clistoceras globosum Nassichuk 1967 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Gastrioceratidae
Gastrioceras cf. glenisteri Nassichuk 1975 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Bisatoceratidae
Bisatoceras kotti Nassichuk 1975 ammonite