Hay River Fm North of Sulphur Bay (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (61.0° N, 114.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.2° S, 36.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: norrisi conodont zone, lower Member (Hay River Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. W. Norris and T. T. Uyeno. 1998. Middle Devonian Brachiopods, Conodonts, Stratigraphy, and Transgressive-Regressive Cycles, Pine Point Area, South of Great Slave Lake, District of Mackenzie, Northwest Territories. Bulletin - Geological Survey of Canada 522 [A. Miller/J. Zambito/J. Zambito]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94517: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 24.02.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula cf. spatulata
Lingula cf. spatulata Vanuxem 1842
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
? Atrypa sp., Spinatrypa cf. albertensis, ? Spinatrypa sp., Desquamatia sp., "Independatrypa cf. independensis" = Desquamatia (Independatrypa), Radiatrypa cf. clarkei
? Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
? Spinatrypa sp. Stainbrook 1951
Desquamatia sp. Alekseeva 1960
"Independatrypa cf. independensis" = Desquamatia (Independatrypa)
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Eleutherokomma impennis
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
? Leiorhynchus sp.
 Rhynchonellida - Yunnanellidae
Ladogioides pax
Ladogioides pax McLaren 1961
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Tecnocyrtina cf. billingsi, Tecnocyrtina billingsi
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria sp., Schizophoria lata
Schizophoria sp. King 1850
Schizophoria lata Stainbrook 1940