ammonites
Locality US684, Polar Bear Pass Area, Bathurst Is., Canada (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Nunavut, Canada (75.9° N, 98.5° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° S, 24.8° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Monograptus yukonensis zone, Bathurst Island Formation, Pragian (412.3 - 409.1 Ma)

• In rock formerly referred to as the lower member of the Stuart Bay Formation.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified, gray, calcareous sandstone

• Deposited by turbidites. Plant-bearing beds often are interbedded with chert pebble conglomerates. Beds were deposited during periods of basement uplift along the eastern coast of Bathurst Island.
• dark grey, thin to medium bedded, fine-grained sandstones. Weather to light grey and then yellow

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, coalified, original carbon

Collection methods: surface (float),

• Collected on 12 July 1996.

Primary reference: M. E. A. Kotyk. 1998. Late Silurian and Early Devonian fossil plants of Bathurst Island, Arctic Canada. University of Saskatchewan [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11419: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Michele Kotyk on 15.08.2001