Weatherall Fmn., Melville Island, McCormick Inlet, Univ. Alberta localities (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (73.5° N, 112.0° W: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 26.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Weatherall Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• Late Eifelian; ensensis conodont zone. Localities SS 2-7, 7.5, 9-15.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

• See lithology.
• General: "Bivalve-dominated assemblages characterize the middle and upper part of the Weatherall Fm....occur both as storn lag[s] (as evident by thin, dense, sheet-like accumulations of disarticulated and often fragmentary shells with reworked phosphatic nodules) and as in situ assemblages..." This sample: "source distal innder/mid shelf"

Collection methods: Other elements occurring in this formation (not necessarily this sample) but not listed by name include: lingulids, fish, nautiloids, tentaculites, crinoid ossicles, trilobites, articulate brachiopods.

Primary reference: P. A. Johnston and Q. H. Goodbody. 1988. Middle Devonian bivalves from Melville Island, Arctic Canada. In N. J. McMillan, A. F. Embry, and D. J. Glass (eds.), Devonian of the World, Volume III. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists. Calgary, Alberta, Canada 337-346 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35529: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 19.12.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculopsis "n. sp. A", Nuculopsis "n. sp. B"
Nuculopsis "n. sp. A" Girty 1912 nut clam
Nuculopsis "n. sp. B" Girty 1912 nut clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
? Limoptera "n. sp. A", Ptychopteria sp.
? Limoptera "n. sp. A" Hall 1869 oyster
Ptychopteria sp. Hall 1883 oyster
 Trigoniida - Eoschizodidae
? Eoschizodus sp.
? Eoschizodus sp. Cox 1951 clam
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Paracyclas rugosa
 Actinodontida - Cycloconchidae
Cycloconchidae indet.
Cycloconchidae indet. Ulrich 1884 clam
n. gen. A. n. sp.