Loc. US611, Polar Bear Pass, Bathurst Is., Canada (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (75.8° N, 98.4° W: paleocoordinates 5.1° S, 24.0° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Monograptus yukonensis zone, Bathurst Island Formation, Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• In rock formerly referred to as the lower member of the Stuart Bay Formation.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified, gray, calcareous sandstone

• Deposited by turbidites. Plant-bearing beds often are interbedded with chert pebble conglomerates. Beds were deposited during periods of basement uplift along the eastern coast of Bathurst Island.
• dark grey, thin to medium bedded, fine-grained sandstones. Weather to light grey and then yellow. Slabs of plant rubbish (axes etc.) among fossiliferous grainstones and packstones.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, coalified, original carbon, replaced with carbon

Collection methods: surface (float), mechanical,

• Collected on 5 July 1995

Primary reference: M. E. A. Kotyk. 1998. Late Silurian and Early Devonian fossil plants of Bathurst Island, Arctic Canada. University of Saskatchewan [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11136: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Michele Kotyk on 20.07.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Zosterophyllopsida
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Zosterophyllopsida indet.
Zosterophyllopsida indet. Foster and Gifford 1974
Psilophytites
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Psilophytites sp.