ammonites
GSC 55512, Smith Creek, Ellesmere Island (Triassic of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (80.6° N, 87.5° W: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 2.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: romunderi ammonoid zone, Blind Fiord Formation, Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• 547 m above base of formation, "Meekoceras bed"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Round Valley Oil Company in 1961; reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: E. T. Tozer. 1994. Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 467:1-663 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105192: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.02.2011

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