Also known as Cape Calhoun Beds Cephalopods of Northwest Greenland
Where: Washington Land, Greenland (80.1° N, 67.0° W: paleocoordinates 1.9° N, 32.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cape Calhoun Formation, Cautleyan (449.2 - 448.8 Ma)
• Cape Calhoun beds. Rasmussen gives this as Pusbillian to Cautleyan, but with Troedsson's fossil beds from the upper part.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; fine-grained, argillaceous limestone
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 24162: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 01.08.2002, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
? Macrocystella sp.1 Callaway 1877 | |
Glyptocystites groenlandicus n. sp.1
Glyptocystites groenlandicus n. sp.1 Paul 1976 | |
Cheirocystella sp.1 Paul 1972 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Spyroceras baffinense Schuchert 1900 | |
Endoceras baffinense Foerste 1928 | |
Charactoceras sp. Foerste 1924 | |
Cyrtogomphoceras sp. Foerste 1924 | |
? Westonoceras sp., "? Thuleoceras baffinense" = Westonoceras baffinense2, "Cyrtoceras cornulum" = Westonoceras cornulum2
? Westonoceras sp. Foerste 1924
"? Thuleoceras baffinense" = Westonoceras baffinense2 Schuchert 1900
"Cyrtoceras cornulum" = Westonoceras cornulum2 Schuchert 1900 | |
Diestoceras sp. Foerste 1924 | |
"Ephippiorthoceras modestum" = Ephippiorthoceras dowlingi
"Ephippiorthoceras modestum" = Ephippiorthoceras dowlingi Foerste and Savage 1927 | |
"Lambeoceras leveannulatum n. sp." = Rasmussenoceras leveannulatum2 Troedsson 1926 Lambeoceras leve-annulatum
Allumettoceras sp. Foerste 1926 | |
Kochoceras cuneiforme n. gen. n. sp.2 Troedsson 1926 | |
Lambeoceras nudum2 Troedsson 1928 | |
Tergomya | |
"Palaeacmaea cf. humilis" = Floripatella humilis2
"Palaeacmaea cf. humilis" = Floripatella humilis2 Ulrich and Scofield 1897 | |
Gastropoda | |
Phragmolites hyperboreus n. sp.2
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"Coelocaulus neglectus" = Hormotoma neglecta2 Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail Coelocaulus neglectus major
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"Hormotoma cf. canadensis" = Cyrtostropha salteri canadensis3
"Hormotoma cf. canadensis" = Cyrtostropha salteri canadensis3 Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail Hormotoma cf. salteri canadensis
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"Trochonema umbilicatum" = Trochonema umbilicata2
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"Lophospira perforata" = Lophospira perangulata2
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"Maclurites crassus" = Maclurites crassa2, "Maclurina manitobensis" = Maclurina manitobensis2, "Maclurites major" = Maclurina manitobensis3
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Bivalvia | |
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