Amadjuak Lake, South Beach (Ordovician to of Canada)
Where: Nunavut, Canada (63.0° N, 71.0° W: paleocoordinates 11.6° S, 41.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Ordovician to Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 443.4 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 24241: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 02.08.2002, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Studied and identified by Wilson (1928; 1931)
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Chlorophyceae | |
Receptaculites sp. Defrance 1827 | |
Anthozoa | |
Calapoecia cf. borealis tabulate coral
Calapoecia anticostiensis Billings 1865 tabulate coral | |
Streptelasma sp. Hall 1847 horn coral
? Streptelasma arcticum Wilson 1931 horn coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Maclurites altus Wilson 1931 snail | |
Loxonema sp. Phillips 1841 snail | |
Trochonema sp. Salter 1859 snail | |
Eotomariidae indet. Wenz 1938 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Endoceras sp. Hall 1847
? Endoceras sp. Hall 1847 |