Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (74.7° N, 94.8° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 4.3° N, 78.3° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: A Member (Read Bay Formation), Wenlock to Wenlock (432.9 - 422.7 Ma)
• unit is 31.1 feet thick
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray limestone and poorly lithified 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: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188858: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 19.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Stenolaemata | |
Spatiopora sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ormoceras "sp. A" Stokes 1840 | |
? Oocerina sp. Foerste 1926 |