Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (74.7° N, 94.8° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 4.3° N, 78.3° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: A Member (Read Bay Formation), Wenlock to Wenlock (433.4 - 423.0 Ma)
• unit is 8.1 feet thick
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray reef rocks and lithified, gray, green 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 188860: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 19.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Syringopora cf. serpens tabulate coral | |
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Striatopora cf. flexuosa Hall 1852 tabulate coral | |
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Favosites cf. senex tabulate coral | |
|
Amplexus cf. polaris horn coral | |
| Stromatoporoidea | |
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Stromatoporoidea indet. Nicholson and Murie 1878 stromatoporoid sponge | |
| Trilobita | |
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Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
| Cephalopoda | |
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Ormoceras "sp. A" Stokes 1840
Ormoceras "sp. B" Stokes 1840 | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Coelocaulus "sp. E" Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail | |
| Lophophorata | |
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Cornulites sp. Schlotheim 1820 | |