Great Day Creek Section, Bathurst Island, Unit 13, Blue Fiord Formation (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (76.3° N, 99.0° W: paleocoordinates 8.5° S, 19.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blue Fiord Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• "Unit n" [from bottom] is my terminology, not Ormiston's. Unit is 32 feet thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and dolomitic reef rocks

• Bioherms known from this formation.

•SEP: From Rose (1999) Sedimentology and diagenesis of the lower Blue Fiord Formation carbonates in a prospective mississippi valley-type (Pb-Zn) setting, Bathurst Island, N.W.T. Univ. of Calgary MS thesis: "The Devonian Blue Fiord Formation (Emsian-Eifelian) consists of subtidal to supratidal carbonates deposited on a wide platform shelf. It is divided into three informal members based on facies associations; BF (sub 1) (Subtidal Restricted), BF (sub 2) (Lagoonal-Tidal Flat), and BF (sub 3) (Subtidal Open/Restricted). "

• Section: "On northern Bathurst Island, the B.F. Fm. consists of light to dark brown, finely crystalline, medium-bedded, fossiliferous limestone interbedded with brown, medium to coarsly crystalline, bioclastic limestone and grey calcareous shale." This unit: "Limestone: brown, finely crystalline, med. bedded, fossiliferous...The dolomitic cores of small bioherms (about 10 feet across) crop out on the ridge formed by this resistant unit"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. R. Ormiston. 1967. Lower and Middle Devonian trilobites of the Canadian arctic islands. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 153:1-148 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26614: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 18.10.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp.
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp.
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Cystiphyllida - Digonophyllidae
"Dialytophyllum sp." = Mesophyllum (Dialytophyllum), cf. Digonophyllum sp.
"Dialytophyllum sp." = Mesophyllum (Dialytophyllum) Amanshauser 1925 horn coral
cf. Digonophyllum sp. Wedekind 1923 horn coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Hexagonaria sp.
Hexagonaria sp. Gürich 1896 horn coral
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
"Dechenella tesca" = Ormistonia tesca
"Dechenella tesca" = Ormistonia tesca Ormiston 1967 trilobite