GSC locality C21241 (Carboniferous of Canada)

Also known as West of Wood Glacier

Where: Nunavut, Canada (80.9° N, 84.3° W: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 1.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Otto Fiord Formation, Westphalian A (318.1 - 314.6 Ma)

• "Bloydian (Westphalian A = Kayalian)... 1,200 feet above the base of the Otto Fiord Formation"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, muddy limestone

• "dark grey shaly limestone"

•definitely lithified based on preservation of specimens

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: H. L. Strimple and W.W. Nassichuk. 1974. Pennsylvanian crinoids from Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada. Journal of Paleontology 48:1149-1155 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90768: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.08.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Komia sp. Korde 1951
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Beresellaceae
Beresella sp. Makhaev 1937
Foraminifera
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae
Climacammina sp. Brady 1873
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Fusulinoidea - Profusulinellidae
 Fusulinina - Pseudoammodiscidae
 Fusulinina - Tuberitinidae
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854
 Fusulinina - Archaesphaeridae
Diplosphaerina sp. Derville 1952
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Schistoceratidae
Branneroceras branneri Smith 1896 ammonite
Crinoidea
 Dendrocrinida - Laudonocrinidae
Anchicrinus planulatus Moore and Strimple 1973 Sea lily