Fossil Island, Nettilling Lake (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (66.5° N, 70.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 3.7° N, 90.9° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Ordovician to Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 443.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. K. Miller, W. Youngquist, and C. Collinson. 1954. Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island. Geological Society of America Memoir 62:1-234 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24231: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 02.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Studied and identified by Wilson (1928; 1931)
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unclassified
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Arcturia complexa
Cephalopoda
 Actinocerida - Huroniidae
Huronia sp.
Huronia sp. Stokes 1824
 Actinocerida - Actinoceratidae
? Elrodoceras sp.
? Elrodoceras sp. Foerste 1924
 Actinocerida - Ormoceratidae
Ormoceras sp.
Ormoceras sp. Stokes 1840
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites altus
Maclurites altus Wilson 1931 snail
Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites interstinctus
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
"Halysites catenulatus" = Halysites catenularius, Halysites catenularia, "Halysites aequabilis" = Catenipora aequabilis
"Halysites catenulatus" = Halysites catenularius Linnaeus 1767 tabulate coral
Halysites catenularia Linnaeus 1767 tabulate coral
Halysites catenularia microporus
"Halysites aequabilis" = Catenipora aequabilis Teichert 1937 tabulate coral
 Sarcinulida - Syringophyllidae
Calapoecia borealis
Calapoecia borealis tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
? Streptelasma arcticum
? Streptelasma arcticum Wilson 1931 horn coral
Chlorophyceae
  - Receptaculitidae
Receptaculites cf. occidentalis, Receptaculites sp.
Receptaculites sp. Defrance 1827