ammonites
Melville Peninsula, north shore Foster Bay, Bad Cache Rapids Formation (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (69.0° N, 81.7° W: paleocoordinates 3.8° S, 41.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bad Cache Rapids Formation, Wildernessian (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; gray, yellow, argillaceous limestone

• Thick-bedded to massive, light grey, grey mottled to yellowish-orange weathered, fine-grained fossiliferous limestone, argillaceous partings and fossiliferous abundant in upper 20 feet of recessive thin-bedded limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. E. Bolton. 1977. Ordovician megafauna, Melville Peninsula, southeastern District of Franklin. Geology of Ordovician rocks, Melville Peninsula and region, southeastern District of Franklin. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 269:23-75 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26947: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 09.11.2002