Where: Nunavut, Canada (81.2° N, 92.1° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 54.9° N, 7.2° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Blind Fiord Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)
• Collected from a concretion 65 feet above the base of the Triassic Blind Fiord Formation, likely from the Otoceras concavum or boreale zones (by comparison with Griesbach Creek section)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. Thorsteinsson in 1961; reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1972. A Permian overtoniid brachiopod in Early Triassic sediments of Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian Arctic and its implications on the Permian-Triassic boundary. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 9:486-499 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135945: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.11.2012
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Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
"Krotovia" sp. Fredericks 1928 |