Where: Nunavut, Canada (76.9° N, 96.7° W: paleocoordinates 2.9° N, 38.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Amorphognathus ordovicicus Local-Range Zone conodont zone, Irene Bay Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lithified, argillaceous limestone
•argillaceous limestone
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 188198: authorized by Emilia Jarochowska, entered by Sarah Haegele on 24.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Amorphognathus ordovicicus Bergström and Bergström 1996 conodont | |
Belodina confluens Sweet 1979 conodont
Panderodus unicostatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Pseudobelodina ? dispansa Glenister 1957 conodont |