Section 2, sample 127 (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (77.5° N, 85.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 7.2° N, 93.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Amorphognathus ordovicicus conodont zone, Lower Member (Allen Bay Formation), Ashgill (449.5 - 443.1 Ma)

• Amorphognathus ordovicicus Local-Range Zone

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• At section B (Fig. 2), the lower and upper parts of the Lower Member, Allen Bay Formation, are composed of limestone and dolostone, respectively, with a total thickness of 357 m. The Middle and Upper members of the formation are separated by a 35 m thick interfingering unit of dark grey and black shale of the Cape Phillips Formation. These members are 301 and 279 m in thickness, respectively, and each consists of a lower reefal facies limestone and an upper transitional facies limestone.

•breccia dolostone

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: S. Zhang, K. Mirza, and C. R. Barnes. 2016. Upper Ordovician – Upper Silurian conodont biostratigraphy, Devon Island and southern Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Islands, with implications for regional stratigraphy, eustasy, and thermal maturation. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 53(9):931-949 [E. Jarochowska/S. Haegele]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 188155: authorized by Emilia Jarochowska, entered by Sarah Haegele on 24.08.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Amorphognathus ordovicicus
Amorphognathus ordovicicus Bergström and Bergström 1996 conodont
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Belodina confluens, Panderodus unicostatus, Pseudobelodina ? dispansa
Belodina confluens Sweet 1979 conodont
Panderodus unicostatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Pseudobelodina ? dispansa Glenister 1957 conodont