Locality 40, unit 32 (Silurian to of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (74.8° N, 93.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.0° N, 33.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: A Member (Read Bay Formation), Wenlock to Wenlock (433.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• unit is 33.8 feet thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray limestone

• Limestone; light grey, weathering to greyish orange-pink, very thin-bedded, flaggy, hard, dense, very finely crystalline

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 188821: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 19.09.2017

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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"rhynchonellid" indet.
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Subrianidae
Conchidium sp.
Conchidium sp. Oehlert 1887
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
Atrypella cf. borealis
Atrypella cf. borealis Kirk and Amsden 1952
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites "sp. A"
Alveolites "sp. A" Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral