GSC locality C-8225, Prince of Wales Island (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (73.5° N, 100.5° W: paleocoordinates 4.2° S, 28.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Drake Bay Formation, Siegen (412.3 - 409.1 Ma)

• Age of faunas discussed at length in this paper. Author concludes they are correlative with Quadrithyris Zone of Nevada, and of Late Lochkovian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: A. R. Ormiston. 1975. Siegenian trilobite zoogeography in Arctic North America. Fossils and Strata 4:391-398 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207811: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.02.2020

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
"Arcticormistonia edgecombei n. gen. n. sp." = Pseudodechenella edgecombei
"Arcticormistonia edgecombei n. gen. n. sp." = Pseudodechenella edgecombei Lieberman 1994 trilobite