Baffin Island, Jordan River, GSC Loc. C-151097: Edenian - Maysvillian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Conodonta - Prioniodontida
Phragmodus undatus
98 elements
Conodonta - Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Protopanderodus liripipus Kennedy et al. 1979
13 elements
Conodonta - Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Drepanoistodus suberectus (Branson and Mehl 1933)
17 elements
? Paroistodus sp. Lindström 1971
2 elements
Conodonta - Ozarkodinida
Periodon grandis (Ethington 1959)
9 elements
Conodonta - Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus gracilis (Branson and Mehl 1933)
24 elements
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Northwest Territories
Coordinates: 64.0° North, 69.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.6° South, 39.9° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Katian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
*Period:Late/Upper Ordovician *Local age/stage:Middle Edenian - Late/Upper Maysvillian
Key time interval:Edenian - Maysvillian
Age range of interval:451.10000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: Organic-rich carbonates.
Environment:deep subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils
Collection methods:chemical,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:0.090
Collection size:163 specimens
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Collection method comments: From 503 g of dissolved material.
Metadata
Database number:26100
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:T. Hanson
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-10-03 21:24:06 Last modified:2005-12-23 12:53:40
Access level:the public Released:2002-10-03 21:24:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

7224. A. D. McCracken and G. S. Nowlan. 1989. Conodont paleontology and biostratigraphy of Ordovician carbonates and petroliferous carbonates on Southampton, Baffin, and Akpatok islands in the eastern Canadian Arctic. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 26(10):1880-1903 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]