Where: Nunavut, Canada (80.6° N, 87.4° W: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 2.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: tardus ammonoid zone, Blind Fiord Formation, Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)
• Wasatchites bed, 614 m above base of formation, 67 m above Meekoceras bed
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E.T. Tozer in 1961; reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: E. T. Tozer. 1994. Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 467:1-663 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137703: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Arctoprionites nodosus Frebold 1930 ceratite |