Also known as Reef 3265

Where: Nunavut, Canada (74.6° N, 97.7° W: paleocoordinates 7.9° S, 22.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Disappointment Bay Formation), Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• Three collections, C2681, C2682, and C3217, are in increasing stratigraphic order, the first from the lowest of three members, the second two from the middle member. C2682 seen as correlative with Eurekaspirifer pinyonensis Zone of Nevada and conodont zone 9 of Klapper et al. 1971.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; dolomitic reef rocks

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: J. G. Johnson. 1975. Late Early Devonian brachiopods from the Disappointment Bay Formation, Lowther Island, Arctic Canada. Journal of Paleontology 49(6):947-978 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26624: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 18.10.2002

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