Coral Bay, Nettilling Lake (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (66.0° N, 69.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° S, 39.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Amorphognathus superbus conodont zone, Amadjuak Formation, Edenian (451.0 - 450.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. K. Miller, W. Youngquist, and C. Collinson. 1954. Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island. Geological Society of America Memoir 62:1-234 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24230: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 02.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Studied and identified by Wilson (1928; 1931)
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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp.
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Leptobolus insignis
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae
Plectambonites sericeus
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp.
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Rafinesquina-like fragment
Stenolaemata
  - Phylloporinidae
? Chasmatopora sp.
? Chasmatopora sp. Eichwald 1860
Cephalopoda
 Tarphycerida - Trocholitidae
Trocholites ammonius
 Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Endoceras proteiforme
 Actinocerida - Actinoceratidae
? Elrodoceras sp.
? Elrodoceras sp. Foerste 1924
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites altus
Maclurites altus Wilson 1931 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
? Liospira sp.
? Liospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
"Ogygites canadensis" = Pseudogygites latimarginatus
"Ogygites canadensis" = Pseudogygites latimarginatus Hall 1847 trilobite
Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
"Halysites catenulatus" = Halysites catenularius
"Halysites catenulatus" = Halysites catenularius Linnaeus 1767 tabulate coral
Chlorophyceae
  - Receptaculitidae
Receptaculites cf. occidentalis, Receptaculites sp.
Receptaculites sp. Defrance 1827