GSC loc. 7475 (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (82.7° N, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 1.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

• Map unit 10A, Trettin 1969.

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, silty sandstone and lithified conglomerate

• Shallow marine, brackish, and perhaps also non-marine, fluvial environments; unequivocal evidence for open marine environments is lacking.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: H. P. Trettin. 1969. Geology of Ordovician to Pennsylvanian rocks, M'Clintock Inlet, north coast of Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 183:1-93 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 111662: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 27.06.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Identified by M.S. Barss.
Show authors, comments, and common names
Sphenopsida
  -
Calamospora sp.
Calamospora sp. Schopf et al.
Lycopodiopsida
 Lycopodiales - Lycopodiaceae
Reticulatisporites sp.
Reticulatisporites sp. Ibrahim 1933 clubmoss
Apiculatisporis
  -
Apiculatisporis sp.
Apiculatisporis sp. Potonié and Kremp 1956
Lycopsida
  -
Lycospora spp.
Lycospora spp. Schopf et al. 1944
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
? Laevigatosporites sp.
Lophotriletes
  -
Lophotriletes sp.
Lophotriletes sp. Potonié and Kremp 1954
Florinites
  -
Florinites sp.
Florinites sp. Schopf et al.