Locality US631, Cheyne River Area, Bathurst Is., Canada (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (76.2° N, 98.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.9° S, 23.6° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Monograptus yukonensis zone 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: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),

• Not processed for microspores. Collected on 11 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 11441: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Michele Kotyk on 16.08.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Psilophytites
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Psilophytites sp.
Zosterophyllum
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Zosterophyllum reflexum