Where: Nunavut, Canada (66.0° N, 69.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° S, 39.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Amorphognathus superbus conodont zone, Amadjuak Formation, Edenian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
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 24230: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 02.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chlorophyceae | |
Receptaculites sp. Defrance 1827 | |
Anthozoa | |
"Halysites catenulatus" = Halysites catenularius
"Halysites catenulatus" = Halysites catenularius Linnaeus 1767 tabulate coral | |
Cephalopoda | |
Endoceras proteiforme Hall 1847 | |
? Elrodoceras sp. Foerste 1924 | |
Trocholites ammonius Conrad 1838 | |
Gastropoda | |
? Liospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Maclurites altus Wilson 1931 snail | |
Strophomenata | |
Plectambonites sericeus Sowerby 1839 | |
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Lingulata | |
Leptobolus insignis Hall 1871 | |
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Stenolaemata | |
? Chasmatopora sp. Eichwald 1860 | |
Trilobita | |
"Ogygites canadensis" = Pseudogygites latimarginatus
"Ogygites canadensis" = Pseudogygites latimarginatus Hall 1847 trilobite |