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
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 | |
Petalaxis cf. elyensis Wilson and Langenheim 1962 horn coral
Cystolonsdaleia carteri n. sp. Bamber and Fedorowski 1998 horn coral | |
Foraminifera | |
Palaeotextulariidae indet. Galloway 1933
Climacammina sp. Brady 1873 | |
Globivalvulina sp. Schubert 1921 | |
Pseudofusulinella ex gr. antiqua Skinner and Wilde 1965
Pseudofusulinella ex gr. fusiformis Skinner and Wilde 1965 | |
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854 | |