Also known as Fosheim Peninsula
Where: Nunavut, Canada (79.8° N, 85.6° W: paleocoordinates 72.3° N, 3.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kanguk Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• Hesperornis was recovered about 155m above the base of the Kanguk, and approx. 30m below the contact with the Eureka Sound Group. In Sverdrup Basin
Environment/lithology: marine; tuffaceous shale and tuffaceous sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Reposited in the TMP
Primary reference: L. V. Hills, E. L. Nicholls, L. M. Nunez-Betelu and D. J. McIntyre. 1999. Hesperornis (Aves) from Ellesmere Island and palynological correlation of known Canadian localities. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 36:1583-1588 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36383: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 27.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
Foraminifera indet. foram | |
Actinopteri | |
Xiphactinus sp. Leidy 1870 | |
Reptilia | |
Mosasauria indet. squamates | |
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur | |
Aves | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
Elasmobranchii indet. Bonaparte 1838 elasmobranch | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite | |
Dinophyceae | |
Trithyrodinium suspectum, Chatangiella ditissima, Chatangiella granulifera, Chatangiella spectabilis, Isabelidinium acuminatum, Isabelidinium cooksoniae
Trithyrodinium suspectum Davey 1969
Isabelidinium acuminatum Stover and Evitt 1978
Isabelidinium cooksoniae Lentin and Williams 1977 | |