GSC C10859, Hare Fjord, Ellesmere Island (Carboniferous of Canada)

Also known as Reef 188

Where: Nunavut, Canada (81.1° N, 85.5° W: paleocoordinates 29.4° N, 1.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hare Fiord Formation, Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• Most likely latest Pennsylvanian age, but not sure

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bindstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• Algae and forams

Primary reference: G. R. Davies and W. W. Nassichuk. 1973. The hydrozoan? Palaeoaplysina from the Upper Paleozoic of Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada. Journal of Paleontology 47:251-265 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49761: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 25.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Rhodophyceae
 Archaeolithophyllales - Palaoaplysinaceae
Palaeoaplysina sp. Krotov 1888
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
cf. Ivanovia sp. Khvorova 1946
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Seletonellaceae
Foraminifera
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae
Climacammina sp. Brady 1873
 Fusulinina - Tuberitinidae
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854
Cuneiphycus
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? Cuneiphycus sp. Johnson 1960
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily