GSC 56430A, Stepanow Creek, Hare Fiord Formation, Ellesmere Island (Carboniferous to of Canada)

Also known as Reef 3461

Where: Nunavut, Canada (81.1° N, 84.3° W: paleocoordinates 25.4° N, 1.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: "Tellevak Limestone" Member (Hare Fiord Formation), Bashkirian to Bashkirian (323.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Late Bashkirian or Early Moscovian (Atokan); "Tellevak Limestone" in the lower Hare Fiord Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• bryozoan reef complex
• light grey skeletal limestone; near the top of a small bryozoan bioherm about 30 m above the base of the 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 62697: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Stenoscisma sp. Conrad 1839
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
Meristorygma sp.
Meristorygma n. sp. A
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
? Hystriculina cf. wabashensis Norwood and Pratten 1855
 Productida - Productellidae
Rugivestis pristina, "? Kozlowskia splendens" = Productus splendens
"? Kozlowskia splendens" = Productus splendens Norwood and Pratten 1855
 Productida - Monticuliferidae