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 18.9 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 188862: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 19.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Favosites forbesi tabulate coral
Favosites cf. hisingeri Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 tabulate coral | |
Rhynchonellata | |
? Merista sp. Suess 1851 | |
Atrypella scheii Holtedahl 1914 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Spyroceras "sp. A" Hyatt 1884 | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod |