GSC loc. 69208 (Silurian to of Canada)

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

• Microcrystalline to cryptocrystalline limestone and 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

• Identified by B.S. Norford.
Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
? Tryplasma sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Cystihalysites sp. Chernyshev 1941 tabulate coral
Halysites sp. von Waldheim 1813 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Theciidae
Fossopora sp. Etheridge 1903 tabulate coral
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Kirkidium sp. Amsden et al. 1967
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
unclassified
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