List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Heliolitida
- Halysitidae
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Halysites catenulatus
(Linnaeus 1767)
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| recombined as Halysites catenularius | ||||||||||
| possible subspecies nitidus | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Favositidae
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Favosites sp.
Lamarck 1816
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Amplexidae
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Amplexus cf. propinguis
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Streptelasmatidae
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Streptelasma sp.
Hall 1847
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Anthozoa
- Cystiphyllida
- Tryplasmatidae
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Porpites informal sp. A aff. porpitus
Schlotheim 1820
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Anthozoa
- Cystiphyllida
- Palaeocyclidae
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Rhabdocyclus sp.
Lang and Smith 1939
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Stromatoporoidea
- Clathrodictyida
- Clathrodictyidae
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? Clathrodictyon variolare
(Rosen 1867)
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Loxonematidae
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? Loxonema sp.
Phillips 1841
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Northwest Territories | County: | Cornwallis Island |
| Coordinates: | 74.7° North, 94.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 6.5° North, 37.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Allen Bay |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray lithified carbonaceous dolomite |
| Lithology description: Dolomite; biostromal, greyish-orange, weathering similar, thick-bedded, blocky, hard, porous, finely crystalline; petroliferous odour when struck or broken | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,replaced with silica |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),chemical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | GSC | ||
| Collectors: | R. Thorsteinsson | Collection dates: | 1950-53 |
| Taxonomic list comments:Identified by A. E. Wilson | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 188781 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Hopkins | Enterer: | M. Hopkins | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-09-18 16:48:11 | Last modified: | 2024-03-31 19:20:45 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-09-18 16:48:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 63386. | R. Thorsteinsson. 1958. Cornwallis and Little Cornwallis Islands, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada Memoirs 294:1-134 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins] |