Standard Oil Co. locality no. AR.25.58 (Devonian of Canada)

Also known as Mr. Ben Moore's Anderson River traverse in summer 1958

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (68.2° N, 125.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 0.9° S, 67.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bear Rock Formation, Emsian (410.6 - 393.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lime mudstone and dolomite

• The palaeoenvironment most likely represents a nearshore marine

•environment based on sedimentology and associations

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by H.-P. Schultze and M. Otto in 1995

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: H. P. Schultze. 2001. Melanognathus, a primitive dipnoan from the Lower Devonian of the Canadian Arctic and the interrelationships of Devonian dipnoans. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(4):781-794 [S. Peters/S. McMullen/S. McMullen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136240: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Sharon McMullen on 24.11.2012, edited by Graeme Lloyd and Roy Plotnick

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

• Repository: Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (CNM)
 Eurypterida - Drepanopteridae
Drepanopterus sp.1 Laurie 1892 eurypterid
 Eurypterida - Carcinosomatidae
Carcinosoma sp.1 Claypole 1890 eurypterid
 Eurypterida - Erieopteridae
Osteichthyes
 Porolepiformes - Holoptychiidae
Nasogaluakus chorni n. gen. n. sp.2
Nasogaluakus chorni n. gen. n. sp.2 Schultze 2000 lobe-finned fish
CMN 51129
 Dipnomorpha -
Melanognathus canadensis Jarvik 1967 lungfish