GSC 47621, Lindstroem Creek, Ellesmere Island (Triassic of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (81.1° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 0.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: sverdrupi ammonoid zone, Blind Fiord Formation, Dienerian (250.5 - 251.2 Ma)

• subzone 2

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Thorsteinsson, 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 137938: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.01.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Paranoritidae
Vavilovites sverdrupi Tozer 1963 ceratite