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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Arcticormistonia edgecombei n. gen. n. sp." = Pseudodechenella edgecombei
"Arcticormistonia edgecombei n. gen. n. sp." = Pseudodechenella edgecombei Lieberman 1994 trilobite |