White Strait, North Shore, Baffin Island (Ordovician to of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (62.8° N, 70.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 0.4° N, 92.5° 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

Collection methods: Fossils found in the "drift" along the southern coast of Baffin Island.

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 24245: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 02.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Actinocerida - Ormoceratidae
? Ormoceras sp. Stokes 1840