Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (57.7° N, 85.3° W: paleocoordinates 21.1° S, 25.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: ensensis - middle varcus zone, lower shale Member (Williams Island Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; red, calcareous shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Specimen counts are given. Field number M-1 (GSC loc. C-13074).
Primary reference: A. W. Norris. 1993. Brachiopods from the lower shale member of the Williams Island Formation (Middle Devonian) of the Hudson Platform, northern Ontaria and southern District of Keewatin. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 460:1-113 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40044: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 16.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Schizophoria sp. King 1850 | |
Desquamatia (Desquamatia) "sp. B" Alekseeva 1960 | |
Strophomenata | |
Protoleptostrophia sp. Caster 1939 | |
"Strophodonta cf. extenuata" = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
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