GSC loc. C-5 (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (82.6° N, 75.5° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 1.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Trettin 1969 map unit 10D.

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, brown, yellow limestone

• Shallow marine, brackish, and perhaps also non-marine, fluvial environments; unequivocal evidence for open marine environments is lacking.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: H. P. Trettin. 1969. Geology of Ordovician to Pennsylvanian rocks, M'Clintock Inlet, north coast of Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 183:1-93 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 111668: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 27.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

• Identified by R. Thorsteinsson and B. Mamet.
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unclassified
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Profusinella sp., Globivalvulinella sp., Rhodophycophyta indet.
Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Ammovertellinae indet.
 Endothyroidea - Bradyinidae
Bradyinidae indet.
Bradyinidae indet. Reytlinger 1950
 Fusulinina - Tuberitinidae
Tuberitina sp.
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
Earlandiidae indet.
Earlandiidae indet. Cummings 1955
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae
Palaeotextulariidae indet., Climacammina sp.
Climacammina sp. Brady 1873
 Fusulinoidea - Pseudostaffellidae
Pseudostaffella sp.
Pseudostaffella sp. Thompson 1942
 Fusulinoidea -
Wedekindellina sp.
Wedekindellina sp. Dunbar and Henbest 1933