Section 1 Bed 007. Irene Bay (Cambrian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (79.3° N, 80.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° S, 45.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Proconodontus muelleri conodont zone, Copes Bay Formation, Sunwaptan (493.5 - 487.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray limestone

• bluff-forming, medium to dark-grey calcilutite and calcisiltite with rare calcarenite beds. Locally there are flat-pebble conglomerate beds and some sucrosic dolostone. Many of the beds are laminated and most weather to a characteristic rusty brown colour.

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: G. S. Nowlan. 1985. Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician Conodonts from the Franklinian Miogeosyncline, Canadian Arctic Islands. Journal of Paleontology 59(1):96-122 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203787: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
"? Paltodus bassleri" = Variabiloconus bassleri, Monocostodus sevierensis
"? Paltodus bassleri" = Variabiloconus bassleri Furnish 1938 conodont
? Paltodus bassleri Group
Monocostodus sevierensis Miller 1969 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Oneotodontidae
Teridontus nakamurai
Teridontus nakamurai Nogami 1967 conodont