Hillock Point, Melville Island: Capitanian, Canada
collected by Captain McClintock 1852
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Productidae
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Productus borealis
Haughton 1858
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| synonym of Horridonia horrida | ||||||||||
| Productus sulcatus var. borealis | ||||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Spiriferellidae
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Spirifer arcticus
Haughton 1858
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| recombined as Spiriferella arctica | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Northwest Territories |
| Coordinates: | 76.0° North, 111.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.2° North, 4.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Guadalupian |
| Stage: | Capitanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 4 |
| Key time interval: | Capitanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 264.28000 - 259.51000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Trold Fiord | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: From float, possibly from Trold Fiord Formation (Waterhouse & Waddington, 1982) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Captain McClintock | Collection dates: | July 7, 1852 |
| Collection method comments: On rounding Hillock Point, I picked up a few fossil shells which appeared to have been shoved up by the ice | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 116122 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-09-05 13:09:03 | Last modified: | 2013-12-09 16:04:49 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-09-05 13:09:03 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 37429. | S. Haughton. 1858. Geological notes and illustrations in McClintock's reminiscences of Arctic ice-travel in search of Sir John Franklin and his companions. Royal Society of Dublin Journal 1:239-250 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
| 29759 | J. B. Waterhouse and J. Waddington. 1982. Systematic descriptions, paleoecology and correlations of the late Paleozoic subfamily Spiriferellinae (Brachiopoda) from the Yukon Territory and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 289:1-73 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |