GSC O-104480. Small stream immediately south of Sylvia Grinnell Lake (Ordovician of Canada)
Where: Nunvait, Canada (64.1° N, 69.4° W: paleocoordinates 10.4° S, 40.0° W)
When: Plectodina tenuis conodont zone, Frobisher Bay Formation, Chatfieldian (453.8 - 451.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: gray limestone
• Buff brown weathering, light grey calcilutite.
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by A. D. McCracken in 1988; reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: T. E. Bolton. 2000. Ordovician megafauna, southern Baffin Island, Nunavat. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 557:39-158 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 192778: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.04.2018
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Taxonomic list
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Ostracoda | |
Eoleperditia sp. Swartz 1949 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
? Encrinuroides sp. Reed 1931 trilobite | |
Cheiruridae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite | |
"Nanillaenus punctatus" = Thaleops punctata, Illaenus lacertus
"Nanillaenus punctatus" = Thaleops punctata Raymond 1905 trilobite
Illaenus lacertus Whittington 1954 trilobite | |
Gastropoda | |
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Crinoidea | |
Cupulocrinus aff. minimus Sea lily |