Where: Nunavut, Canada (78.4° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 26.3° N, 1.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Clastic Member (Canyon Fiord Formation), Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)
• 60.5 m above base of Upper Clastic Member, Kasimovian or Gzhelian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: E. W. Bamber and J. Fedorowski. 1998. Biostratigraphy and systematics of Upper Carboniferous cerioid rugose corals, Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 511:1-127 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 76938: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.12.2007, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
Metapronorites pseudotimorensis Miller 1930 ammonite | |
Somoholites bamberi Nassichuk 1975 ammonite | |
Anthozoa | |
Petalaxis baculatus n. sp.
Petalaxis baculatus n. sp. Bamber and Fedorowski 1998 horn coral | |
Tubothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
Palaeotextulariidae indet. Galloway 1933 | |
Globivalvulina sp. Schubert 1921 | |
? Schubertella sp. Staff and Wedekind 1910 |