Cornwallis Island, Abbott River, CAR1, 24.4m (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (75.3° N, 96.0° W: paleocoordinates 1.2° N, 30.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Neodiversograptus nilssoni graptolite zone, Cape Phillips Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone and lithified, calcareous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby and B. D. E. Chatterton. 1989. Middle Silurian Ludlovian and Wenlockian sponges from Baillie-Hamilton and Cornwallis Islands, Arctic Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 391:1-69 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119784: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Lithistida - Astylospongiidae
Astylospongiella striola Rigby and Chatterton 1989 demosponge
 Lithistida - Anthaspidellidae
Dunhillia fistulosa Rigby and Chatterton 1989 demosponge
Dunhillia pluraliporosa Rigby and Chatterton 1989 demosponge