GSC loc. 7477 (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (82.7° N, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 1.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

• Map unit 10A, Trettin 1969.

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, silty sandstone and lithified conglomerate

• Shallow marine, brackish, and perhaps also non-marine, fluvial environments; unequivocal evidence for open marine environments is lacking.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: H. P. Trettin. 1969. Geology of Ordovician to Pennsylvanian rocks, M'Clintock Inlet, north coast of Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 183:1-93 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 111660: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 27.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

• Identified by W. A. Bell
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Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Calamites sp.
Calamites sp. Suckow 1784