GSC C-4320, Blue Mountains, Ellesmere Island (Permian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (80.7° N, 85.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 4.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Trappers Cove Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• 456 m above top of the "Tellevak Limestone" member of the Hare Fiord Formation. Although listed as Hare Fiord Formation, presumably equivalent to Trappers Cove Formation in revised names.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. W. Nassichuk. 1975. The stratigraphic significance of Permian ammonoids on Ellesmere Island. Geological Survey of Canada Paper 75-1B:277-283 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115760: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Popanoceratidae
"Popanoceras" sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Paragastrioceratidae
Paragastrioceras "n. sp." Tchernow 1907 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Adrianitidae
? Neocrimites sp. Ruzhentsev 1940 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Vidrioceratidae
Stacheoceras "n. sp." Gemmellaro 1887 ammonite