GSC 32373, Arthaber Creek, Axel Heiberg Island (Triassic of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (80.6° N, 95.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 2.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: strigatus ammonoid zone, Blind Fiord Formation, Griesbachian (252.2 - 251.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Thorsteinsson in 1957; reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: E. T. Tozer. 1994. Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 467:1-663 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 43852: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 27.08.2004, edited by Austin Hendy and Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Claraiidae
Claraia stachei Bittner 1901 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Ophiceratidae
Ophiceras commune Spath 1930 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Bukkenites sp. Tozer 1994 ceratite
3 paratypes of Proptychites strigatus not placed in one of Tozer's Bukkenites species
"Proptychites strigatus n. sp." = Bukkenites strigatus Tozer 1961 ceratite
Bukkenites nitidus Tozer 1994 ceratite
Bukkenites macilentus Tozer 1994 ceratite
Bukkenites incisus Tozer 1994 ceratite