GSC 26403, South Fiord Diapir, Axel Heiberg Island (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (79.4° N, 94.1° W: paleocoordinates 17.5° N, 11.3° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mississippian (358.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• none given

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: J. L. Carter. 1975. Lower Carboniferous Brachiopods from Axel Heiberg and Melville Islands, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Bulletin of American Paleontology 67(287):71-97 [T. Olszewski/M. Gibson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10282: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Melissa Gibson on 30.03.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Also includes a wellerellid indet.
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Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Overtonia sp., Eomarginifera sp., Productus sp.
Eomarginifera sp. Muir-Wood 1930
 Productida - Productidae
Setigerites altonensis
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Ovatia sp.
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris acadia
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
Brachythyris dichotomus
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Martinia sp.
Martinia sp. M'Coy 1844
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Anthracospirifer borealis
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Phricodothyris sp.
Phricodothyris sp. George 1932
 Terebratulida - Beecheriidae
Beecheria formosa
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita casteri, Cleiothyridina offirmata