Southampton Island, Churchill River Group (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (64.5° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 5.0° S, 43.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Churchill River Group, Richmondian (449.6 - 445.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. E. Bolton. 1988. Stromatoporoidea from the Ordovician rocks of central and eastern Canada. Contributions to Canadian paleontology, Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 379:17-45 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27112: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 18.11.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Palaeophyllum halysitoides
 Sarcinulida - Syringophyllidae
Calapoecia ungava
Calapoecia ungava tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Cyrtophyllidae
Cyrtophyllum pattersoni
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Manipora sp.
Manipora sp. Sinclair 1955 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Rosenellidae
Cystostroma sp.
Cystostroma sp. Galloway and St Jean 1957 stromatoporoid sponge
one large coenosteum