GSC Loc. 91313 - Amund Ringnes Island [Deer Bay Fm] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (78.6° N, 97.9° W: paleocoordinates 70.8° N, 13.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Deer Bay Formation, Valanginian (139.8 - 132.9 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Deer Bay Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Valanginian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the unknown position within the Deer Bay Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Not reported in text, but apparently marine siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Kemper; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: E. Kemper. REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of Canada (GSC).

Primary reference: J. A. Jeletzky. 1979. Eurasian craspeditid genera Temnoptychites and Tollia in the lower Valanginian of Sverdrup Basin, District of Franklin. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 299:1-89 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87562: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to described ammonoids. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Polyptychitidae
Temnoptychites (Temnoptychites) kemperi n. sp., "Temnoptychites (Temnoptychites) borealis" = Nikitinoceras (Russanovia) borealis, Tollia aff. subtilis
"Temnoptychites (Temnoptychites) borealis" = Nikitinoceras (Russanovia) borealis Bodylevsky 1902 ammonite