Locality 1, unit 9 (Silurian to of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (74.7° N, 94.8° W: paleocoordinates 3.1° N, 33.5° 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 4 feet thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray limestone

• Limestone; medium dark-grey, weathering to medium grey, thin-bedded, in part porous, finely crystalline; rubbly weathering

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 188857: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 19.09.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Hormotoma sp., Hormotoma "sp. A"
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella "sp. A"
Howellella "sp. A" Kozlowski 1946
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
? Whitfieldella sp.
? Whitfieldella sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Coelocaulus sp.
Coelocaulus sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
? Holopea sp.
? Holopea sp. Hall 1847 snail
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites cf. senex
Favosites cf. senex tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora cf. serpens