Locality 31 (Silurian to of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (75.0° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 2.1° N, 31.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified 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 188870: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 19.09.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella "sp. A", Delthyris "sp. B"
Howellella "sp. A" Kozlowski 1946
Delthyris "sp. B" Dalman 1828
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Nalivkinia cf. marginalis
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
? Atrypa barbatus
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia sp.
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Brachyprion sp.
Brachyprion sp. Shaler 1865
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp.
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
 Strophomenida -
Idioglyptus cf. stigmatus