lower Bit Lst mbr (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (61.0° N, 114.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.2° S, 36.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: lower varcus conodont zone, Bituminous Limestone Member (Pine Point Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• Bituminous limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. W. Norris and T. T. Uyeno. 1998. Middle Devonian Brachiopods, Conodonts, Stratigraphy, and Transgressive-Regressive Cycles, Pine Point Area, South of Great Slave Lake, District of Mackenzie, Northwest Territories. Bulletin - Geological Survey of Canada 522 [A. Miller/J. Zambito/J. Zambito]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94512: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 24.02.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Spinatrypina "" Rzhonsnitskaya 1964
Spinatrypa "" Stainbrook 1951
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
 Productida - Productellidae