Also known as Melville Peninsula, GSC loc 89831 sec 3, Bad Cache Rapids Formation

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (68.8° N, 85.2° W: paleocoordinates 3.3° S, 43.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Amorphognathus superbus conodont zone, Amadjuak Formation (Bad Cache Rapids Group), Edenian to Edenian (451.0 - 449.6 Ma)

• Was Blackriveran-Kirkfieldian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale and limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: chemical,

Primary reference: C. R. Barnes. 1977. Ordovician conodonts from the Ship Point and Bad Cache Rapids Formations, Melville Peninsula, southeastern District of Franklin. Geology of Ordovician rocks, Melville Peninsula and region, southeastern District of Franklin. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 269:99-119 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27086: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 16.11.2002, edited by Uta Merkel

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