212 m above base of member B, unit L8e, section L (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (73.6° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 38.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: B Member (Baillarge Formation), Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

• Late Ashgill, but pre-Hirnantian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Dolomitic limestone. Described in Nentwich 1987. Stratigraphy & sedimentology of the Ordovician and Silurian Brodeur Group, Northern Prodeur Peninsula, Baffin Island. PhD Thesis. U. Alberta, Edmonton. 457 p.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: University of Alberta

Primary reference: J.-Y. Rong, B. Jones, and F.W. Nentwich. 1989. Proconchidium from Late Ordovician Strata of Brodeur Peninsula, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. Journal of Paleontology 63(1):25-33 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67297: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

• See Nentwich 1987 for other taxa.
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Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Virgianidae
Proconchidium brodeurensis n. sp.
Proconchidium brodeurensis n. sp. Rong et al. 1989
20+ pedicles, 1 brachial.