Where: Nunavut, Canada (76.2° N, 98.2° W: paleocoordinates 3.9° S, 24.5° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Monograptus yukonensis zone zone, Bathurst Island Formation, Pragian (412.3 - 409.1 Ma)
• in beds formerly assigned to the lower member of the Stuart Bay Formation.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified, gray, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression, trace, coalified, original carbon
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• Collected on 13 July 1995. Not processed for microfossils.
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 11521: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Pat Gensel on 20.08.2001