Bird Fiord Fm., Goose Fiord Area Loc F9 (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (76.6° N, 88.4° W: paleocoordinates 6.7° S, 17.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bird Fiord Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified, micaceous, sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Jones. 1982. Devonian brachiopods from the Bird Fiord Formation of the Goose Fiord area, southern Ellesmere Island, arctic Canada. Journal of Paleontology 56(6):1397-1409 [S. Peters/S. Peters]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65966: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 26.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria sulcata Easton et al. 1958
 Spiriferida - Elythynidae
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae