Locality US629, Cheyne River Area, Bathurst Is., Canada (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (76.0° N, 98.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.0° S, 23.7° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• in beds formerly assigned to 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.
• monotonous, dark grey, thin to medium bedded, fine grained sandstones. Weather to light grey and then yellow.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, coalified, original carbon

Collection methods: surface (float),

• Collected on 10 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 11438: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Michele Kotyk on 16.08.2001

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Psilophytites
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? Psilophytites sp.