GSC 60192/3, SW Blue Mountains C, Ellesmere Island (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (80.7° N, 85.8° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 0.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hare Fiord Formation, Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• 173-174 m above top of Tellevak Limestone, Kasimovian to earliest Gzhelian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• debris flow bed

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. W. Bamber and J. Fedorowski. 1998. Biostratigraphy and systematics of Upper Carboniferous cerioid rugose corals, Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 511:1-127 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76956: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.12.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Petalaxidae
Petalaxis cf. elyensis Wilson and Langenheim 1962 horn coral
Cystolonsdaleia carteri n. sp. Bamber and Fedorowski 1998 horn coral
Foraminifera
  -
 Lagenina - Ichtyolariidae
 Lagenina - Syzraniidae
  -
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae
Climacammina sp. Brady 1873
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
Globivalvulina sp. Schubert 1921
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Pseudofusulinella ex gr. antiqua Skinner and Wilde 1965
Pseudofusulinella ex gr. fusiformis Skinner and Wilde 1965
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Endothyroidea - Bradyinidae