Prince Regent Inlet, Port Bowen (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (72.8° N, 90.5° W: paleocoordinates 2.9° N, 39.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Richmondian (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. K. Miller, W. Youngquist, and C. Collinson. 1954. Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island. Geological Society of America Memoir 62:1-234 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24187: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 01.08.2002, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• List from Lee 1912.
unclassified
  -
"Orthotetid" sp.
Orthotetid brachiopod
"Murchisonid" sp.
?Murchisonid gastropod
"Pleurotomarid" sp.
Pleurotomarid gastropod
Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Halysites labyrinthica Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
? Streptelasma sp. Hall 1847 horn coral
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
? Diphyphyllum sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral
Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia aff. balthica ostracod
Leperditia aff. L. balthica guelphica
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Tentaculita
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
Styliolina sp. Karpinsky 1884
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Turreted gastropods
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
? Straparollus sp. de Montfort 1810 snail
 Euomphalina - Anomphalidae
"Pycnomphalus solarioides" = Pycnomphalus obesus
"Pycnomphalus solarioides" = Pycnomphalus obesus Lindström 1884 snail
Cephalopoda
 Discosorida - Discosoridae
 Actinocerida - Actinoceratidae
Actinoceras sp. Bronn 1837