ammonites
GSC C-179721-C-179727, NE Trold Fiord, Ellesmere Island (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (78.6° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 25.2° N, 1.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Clastic Member (Canyon Fiord Formation), Moscovian (314.6 - 306.9 Ma)

• 94-103 m above base

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. W. Bamber and J. Fedorowski. 1998. Biostratigraphy and systematics of Upper Carboniferous cerioid rugose corals, Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 511:1-127 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76946: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.12.2007