GSC loc 89830 sec 2, Creek section at shore ½ north of Hall Beach Eskimo village: Edenian - Maysvillian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754
informal Scolecodonts sp.
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Helopora sp. Hall 1851
Cephalopoda - Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Endoceras sp. Hall 1847
Cephalopoda - Ascocerida - Probillingsitidae
? Probillingsites sp. Foerste 1928
Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Oncoceratidae
? Neumatoceras contractum
Neumatoceras churchillense
Cephalopoda - Actinocerida - Gonioceratidae
Gonioceras cf. wulffi
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Trochonematidae
Trochonema sp. Salter 1859
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818
Ostracoda - Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Eoleperditia sp. Swartz 1949
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Calyptaulax goodridgii (Schuchert 1900)
recombined as Eomonorachus goodridgii
Anthozoa
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora spp.
Chlorophyceae - Receptaculitidae
Receptaculites sp. Defrance 1827
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Northwest Territories County:District of Franklin
Coordinates: 68.8° North, 81.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.1° South, 41.9° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Katian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
*Period:Middle Ordovician - Late/Upper Ordovician *Local age/stage:Wildernessian - Barneveldian
Key time interval:Edenian - Maysvillian Conodont zone: Amorphognathus superbus
Age range of interval:451.10000 - 449.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Bad Cache Rapids Formation:Amadjuak
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown,gray "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: thin-bedded, light to medium brown limestone, weathering medium grey with brown mottling, shale partings.
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Melville Peninsula, north of Hall Beach, Bad Cache Rapids Formation
Database number:26942
Authorizer:S. Holland Enterer:T. Hanson
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Subset of collection #:27085
Created:2002-11-08 23:25:18 Last modified:2015-10-20 13:27:49
Access level:the public Released:2002-11-08 23:25:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
7452. T. E. Bolton. 1977. Ordovician megafauna, Melville Peninsula, southeastern District of Franklin. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 269:23-75 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

56688 S. Zhang. 2013. Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy and redefinition of the age of lithostratigraphic units on northeastern Melville Peninsula, Nunavut. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 50(8):808-825 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]