Where: Nunavut, Canada (82.7° N, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 4.9° N, 23.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Marvin Formation, Wenlock to Wenlock (433.4 - 423.0 Ma)
• From interval 436 to 600 feet.
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified limestone and lithified, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. P. Trettin. 1969. Geology of Ordovician to Pennsylvanian rocks, M'Clintock Inlet, north coast of Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 183:1-93 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 111656: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 27.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
? Tryplasma sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral | |
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral | |
Cystihalysites sp. Chernyshev 1941 tabulate coral
Halysites sp. von Waldheim 1813 tabulate coral | |
Fossopora sp. Etheridge 1903 tabulate coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Kirkidium sp. Amsden et al. 1967 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
unclassified | |
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 |