GSC C-10891, E Blind Fiord B, Ellesmere Island (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (78.4° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 26.3° N, 1.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Clastic Member (Canyon Fiord Formation), Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• 60.5 m above base of Upper Clastic Member, Kasimovian or Gzhelian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• rubble

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. W. Bamber and J. Fedorowski. 1998. Biostratigraphy and systematics of Upper Carboniferous cerioid rugose corals, Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 511:1-127 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76938: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.12.2007, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Cephalopoda
 Prolecanitida - Pronoritidae
Metapronorites pseudotimorensis Miller 1930 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Somoholitidae
Somoholites bamberi Nassichuk 1975 ammonite
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Petalaxidae
Petalaxis baculatus n. sp. Bamber and Fedorowski 1998 horn coral
Foraminifera
  -
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Foraminifera
 Lagenina - Ichtyolariidae
 Lagenina - Syzraniidae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
 Fusulinoidea - Schubertellidae
? Schubertella sp. Staff and Wedekind 1910