GSC 51676, Smith Creek, Ellesmere Island (Triassic of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (80.6° N, 87.4° W: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 5.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Buddhaites hagei ammonoid zone, Lower Shale Member (Blind Fiord Formation), Bithynian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. T. Tozer. 1994. Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 467:1-663 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 103402: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Anagymnotoceras tozeri McLearn 1969 ceratite
 Phylloceratida - Ussuritidae
Ussurites yabei Diener 1915 ammonite