Victoria Head (Ellesmere Island) (Ordovician of Canada)

Also known as Bache Peninsula, Ellesmereland; Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Where: Nunavut, Canada (79.2° N, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.7° S, 41.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gasconadian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• "Lower Canadian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collected by P. Schei in 1899

• PMO = Paleontologisk Museum, Oslo

Primary reference: R. H. Flower. 1964. The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda). State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 12:234 p. [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88785: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 20.04.2009, edited by Björn Kröger

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
Caseoceras holtedahli Foerste 1921
Ellesmeroceras scheii n. gen. n. sp. Foerste 1921
PMO A10430 (type)