Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (74.8° N, 93.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 3.5° N, 80.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: A Member (Read Bay Formation), Wenlock (432.9 - 426.7 Ma)

• unit is 228 feet thick; fauna in middle of unit

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, argillaceous lime mudstone and poorly lithified, gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Thorsteinsson in 1950-53; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. Thorsteinsson. 1958. Cornwallis and Little Cornwallis Islands, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories. Geological Survey of Canada Memoirs 294:1-134 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 188803: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 19.09.2017

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