Where: Nunavut, Canada (78.2° N, 99.8° W: paleocoordinates 73.3° N, 13.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dictyomitra multicostata zone, Lower Kanguk Formation, Early/Lower Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: deltaic; mudstone and shale
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: A. T. Pugh, C. J. Schröder-Adams, E. S. Carter, J. OHerrle, J. Galloway, J. W. Haggart, J. L. Andrews and K. Hatsukanoc. 2014. Cenomanian to Santonian radiolarian biostratigraphy, carbon isotope stratigraphy and paleoenvironments of the Sverdrup Basin, Ellef Ringnes Island, Nunavut, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 413:101-122 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 166002: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 02.02.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Protozoa | |
Stylotrochus polygonatus radiolarian | |
Dictyomitra multicostata Zittel 1876 radiolarian | |
Diacanthocapsa aff. cayeuxi radiolarian
Diacanthocapsa aff. granti radiolarian | |
Eostichomitra carnegiense radiolarian | |
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Spongodiscus ? sp. Ehrenberg 1854 radiolarian | |
Orbiculiforma ? sp. Pessagno 1973 radiolarian |