Where: Nunavut, Canada (78.4° N, 85.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 3.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby and F. M. Terrell. 1973. Permian sponges from western Ellesmere Island, arctic Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 10:1431-1443 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111872: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.06.2011

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