GSC 56430A, Stepanow Creek, Hare Fiord Formation, Ellesmere Island: Bashkirian - Moscovian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Rugivestis pristina
5 individuals
? Kozlowskia splendens (Norwood and Pratten 1855)
5 individuals
original and current combination Productus splendens
Strophomenata - Productida - Paucispiniferidae
? Hystriculina cf. wabashensis (Norwood and Pratten 1855)
1 individual
Strophomenata - Productida - Monticuliferidae
Liraria paucispina
50 individuals
Strophomenata - Productida - Araksalosiidae
Plicatiferina kalashnikovi
2 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
Meristorygma arctica
4 individuals
Meristorygma sp.
2 individuals
Meristorygma n. sp. A
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Martiniidae
? Heteraria canadiensis
1 individual
Tiramnia walteri
7 individuals
Tiramnia grunti
6 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Elythidae
Phricodothyris asiatica (Chao 1929)
3 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Stenoscisma sp. Conrad 1839
1 individual
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella sp.
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Nunavut
Coordinates: 81.1° North, 84.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.4° North, 1.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 4
Key time interval:Bashkirian - Moscovian
Age range of interval:323.20000 - 307.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hare Fiord Member:"Tellevak Limestone"
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Late Bashkirian or Early Moscovian (Atokan); "Tellevak Limestone" in the lower Hare Fiord Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: light grey skeletal limestone; near the top of a small bryozoan bioherm about 30 m above the base of the Hare Fiord Formation
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: bryozoan reef complex
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3461
Database number:62697
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-07-26 01:41:50 Last modified:2006-07-27 07:06:46
Access level:the public Released:2006-07-26 01:41:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18079.1% 1680J. L. Carter and V. I. Poletaev. 1998. Atokan (Late Bashkirian or Early Moscovian) brachiopods from the Hare Fiord Formation of Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Annals of Carnegie Museum 67(2):105-180 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]