Port Leopold, units D13 and D15 (Silurian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (73.9° N, 90.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.4° N, 31.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cape Clarence Member (Leopold Formation), Ludfordian (425.6 - 423.0 Ma)

• "Although not conclusive, the available evidence evidence suggests that the eurypterids are of late Ludlovian age"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, sandy limestone

• "BA 2 as indicated by the associated brachiopods, and possibly some BA 1 as well. Jones and Kjellesvig-Waering (1985) suggest an intertidal environment for the eurypterids."

•SEP environmental call based on given info

• Grey to yellowish-brown, planar bedded, sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1971, 1973; reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: B. Jones and E. N. Kjellesvig-Waering. 1985. Upper Silurian eurypterids from the Leopold Formation, Somerset Island, Arctic Canada. Journal of Paleontology 59:411-417 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26884: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 07.11.2002, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Carcinosomatidae
Rhinocarcinosoma sp.
 Eurypterida - Eurypteridae
Eurypterus leopoldi n. sp., Eurypterus leopoldi
Eurypterus leopoldi n. sp. Tetlie 2006 eurypterid
Eurypterus leopoldi Tetlie 2006 eurypterid