Hoodoo Dome on Ellef Ringnes Island (Cretaceous of Canada)

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
 Radiolaria -
 Nassellaria - Archaeodictyomitridae
Dictyomitra multicostata Zittel 1876 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Carpocaniidae
 Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiidae
 Nassellaria - Amphipyndacidae
Amphipyndax stocki Campbell and Clark 1944 radiolarian
"Amphiternis aff. stocki" in paper
 Spumellaria - Spongodiscidae
Spongodiscus ? sp. Ehrenberg 1854 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Orbiculiformidae
Orbiculiforma ? sp. Pessagno 1973 radiolarian