Where: Nunavut, Canada (75.8° N, 94.5° W: paleocoordinates 1.9° N, 30.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cape Phillips Formation, Gorstian (427.4 - 425.6 Ma)
• Parts of section yielding trilobites are from about 97.5 ft. to 245 ft. above base, spanning early Wenlockian Cyrtograptus canadenses through penultimate Wenlockian Monograptus testis zones.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; shelly/skeletal limestone and calcareous shale
Reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: D. G. Perry and B. D. E. Chatterton. 1977. Silurian (Wenlockian) trilobites from Baillie-Hamilton Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 14:285-317 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 26008: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 30.09.2002, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tergomya | |
Tryblidium thorsteinssoni n. sp.2
Tryblidium thorsteinssoni n. sp.2 Boucot 1975 | |
Gastropoda | |
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"Platyceras (Platyostoma) boggsi" = Platyostoma boggsi3, "Platyceras (Platyceras) cornutum" = Platyostoma cornutum3
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"Lytospira cf. gotlandicus" = Pachystrophia gotlandicus3
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Ostracoda | |
Leperditia arctica ostracod
"Leperditia" hisingeri ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Illaenidae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
"sensu lato Proetus cf. granulatus" = Gerastos granulatus, sensu lato Proetus sp.
"sensu lato Proetus cf. granulatus" = Gerastos granulatus Lindström 1885 trilobite
sensu lato Proetus sp. Steininger 1831 trilobite | |
Otarion sp. Zenker 1833 trilobite | |
Calymene sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite | |
Encrinurus (Fragiscutum) sp. Emmrich 1844 trilobite | |
Sphaerexochus dimorphus n. sp. Whittington and Evitt 1953 trilobite
Youngia "sp. 1" Lindström 1885 trilobite
Youngia "sp. 2" Lindström 1885 trilobite | |
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? Leonaspis sp. Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite |