Ikpigarsuit, Foxe Basin Fauna: Late/Upper Ordovician, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
informal Actinoceratoid sp.
actinoceratoid cephalopod
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
? Desmorthis sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
? Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Nunavut
Coordinates: 70.0° North, 80.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.3° South, 39.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4-5
*Period:Late/Upper Ordovician
Key time interval:Late/Upper Ordovician
Age range of interval:458.40000 - 443.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: Environmental call by T. Hanson.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:species names
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Reported by Teichert.
Metadata
Database number:24217
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:T. Hanson
Modifier:T. Hanson Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-08-02 10:20:41 Last modified:2002-08-02 13:20:45
Access level:the public Released:2002-08-02 10:20:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
6817. A. K. Miller, W. Youngquist, and C. Collinson. 1954. Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island. Geological Society of America Memoir 62:1-234 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]