Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (74.8° N, 93.4° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° N, 31.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: C Member (Read Bay Formation), Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)
• unit is 14.5 feet thick
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, yellow packstone
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 188898: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 20.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Cystoidea | |
Cystoidea indet. von Buch 1846 | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Anthozoa | |
Halysites sp. von Waldheim 1813 tabulate coral | |
Streptelasma sp. Hall 1847 horn coral |