Where: Nunavut, Canada (77.6° N, 86.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 2.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Great Bear Cape Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.5 Ma)

• Approximately 915 feet above the base of the unit tentatively assigned to the Assistance Formation (now considered to belong to the Great Bear Cape Fm).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. W. Nassichuk, W. M. Furnish, and B. F. Glenister. 1965. The Permian ammonoids of Arctic Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 131:1-56 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111866: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.06.2011

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