Where: Nunavut, Canada (76.0° N, 98.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.0° S, 23.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stuart Bay Formation, Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• Age of faunas discussed at length in this paper. This collection comes from above the collections that are interpreted as correlative with Quadrithyris Zone of Nevada, and of Late Lochkovian age. "The age of this collection is probably Pragian, based on the presence of Werneckeella, large specimens of Cortezorthis, and the presence of Muriferella and Phragmostrophia. Eighty-five feet higher in the section, the Stuart Bay Formation is overlain unconformably by the Disappointment Bay Forrmation...of Zlichovian or probably late Emsian age."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; limestone

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: J. G. Johnson. 1975. Devonian brachiopods from the Quadrithyris Zone (Upper Lochkovian), Canadian arctic archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 235:5-36 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26652: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 21.10.2002

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