Also known as ETE Locality 179, Haughton-Astrobleme,
Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (75.4° N, 89.4° W: paleocoordinates 75.8° N, 80.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Haughton Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
• Type section
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crater lake; poorly lithified, carbonaceous mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: adpression, original carbon
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: L. J. Hickey, K. R. Johnson, and M.R. Dawson. 1988. The Stratigraphy, sedimentology and fossils of the Haughton Formation: a post-impact crater-fill, Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada. Meteoritics 23:221-231 [S. Wing/S. Wing/M. Kosnik] more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 21371: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Scott Wing on 04.01.1993, edited by Mark Uhen