Melville Peninsula, GSC loc 89833 sec 5, Ship Point Formation (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (68.0° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 6.6° S, 46.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ship Point Formation, Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dolomite

• Environmental call by T. Hanson.

Size class: microfossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: chemical,

Primary reference: C. R. Barnes. 1977. Ordovician conodonts from the Ship Point and Bad Cache Rapids Formations, Melville Peninsula, southeastern District of Franklin. Geology of Ordovician rocks, Melville Peninsula and region, southeastern District of Franklin. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 269:99-119 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27079: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 16.11.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Eoneoprioniodus bialatus, Eoneoprioniodus bilongatus
Eoneoprioniodus bilongatus Harris 1962 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Oistodontidae
Oistodus multicorrugatus, Oistodus scalenocarinatus
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
"Scolopodus gracilis" = Parapanderodus gracilis
"Scolopodus gracilis" = Parapanderodus gracilis Ethington and Clark 1964 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Acanthodontidae
Ulrichodina prima, Ulrichodina sp. n. sp.
Ulrichodina sp. n. sp. Furnish 1938 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
"Drepanodus parallelus" = Eucharodus parallelus
"Drepanodus parallelus" = Eucharodus parallelus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Drepanoistodus basiovalis
Drepanoistodus basiovalis Sregeeva 1963 conodont