GSC 30486, Ellesmere Island (Triassic of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (80.0° N, 85.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 51.9° N, 11.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Heiberg Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Possibly middle Norian, about 250 feet above base of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E.T. Tozer in 1956; reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: E. T. Tozer. 1961. Triassic stratigraphy and faunas, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Arctic Archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 316:1-116 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142423: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma kiparisovae Tozer 1961 scallop
Meleagrinella antiqua Tozer 1970 scallop