Where: Nunavut, Canada (73.5° N, 100.6° W: paleocoordinates 5.3° S, 24.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Eifelian to Eifelian (393.3 - 382.7 Ma)
• Unnamed formation, "probably partly correlative witht he Blue Fiord Formation" (which he assigns an age of Eifelian through Givetian). "Unit n" [from bottom] is my terminology, not Ormiston's. Unit is 5.7 feet thick.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; argillaceous limestone
•SEP environmental call based on given info and regional context
Primary reference: A. R. Ormiston. 1967. Lower and Middle Devonian trilobites of the Canadian arctic islands. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 153:1-148 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 26577: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 18.10.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gnathostomata | |
Placodermi indet. M'Coy 1848 armour-plated fish | |
Tentaculita | |
Styliolina sp. Karpinsky 1884 |