GSC 5806 (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (82.3° N, 70.8° W: paleocoordinates 17.3° N, 6.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Cape Rawson Group, Mississippian (358.9 - 323.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, black, argillaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Hattersley-Smith

Primary reference: R. L. Christie. 1964. Geological Reconnaissance of northeastern Ellesmere Island, District of Franklin. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 331:1-79 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 101999: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 06.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Identified by F. M. Hueber
unclassified
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Lepidodendroposis sp.
? L. corrugatum
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris sp. Sternberg 1825
Asterocalamites scrobiculatus
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 Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Pteropsida
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Rhodea tenuis Gothan 1913
Rhacopteris
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Rhacopteris sp. Schimper 1869