Also known as Mr. Ben Moore's Anderson River traverse in summer 1958
Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (68.2° N, 125.8° W: paleocoordinates 7.2° S, 33.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Bear Rock Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lime mudstone and dolomite
•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: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes | |
Melanognathus canadensis Jarvik 1967 lungfish | |
Nasogaluakus chorni n. gen. n. sp.2
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