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 17 feet thick
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray limestone
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 188866: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 19.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Ostracoda | |
Isochilina sp. Jones 1858 ostracod | |
Leperditia "sp. A" Rouault 1851 ostracod
Leperditia "sp. B" Rouault 1851 ostracod | |
Rhynchonellata | |
? Hindella sp. Davidson 1882 | |
"Conchidium knighti" = Kirkidium knighti
"Conchidium knighti" = Kirkidium knighti Sowerby 1813 | |
Gastropoda | |
? Coelocaulus sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail |