Wynniatt Formation
Wynniatt Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: 848±49 Ma - 761±41 Ma[1] | |
Type | Formation |
Overlies | Boot Inlet Formation |
Location | |
Region | Nunavut |
Country | Canada |
The Wynniatt Formation is a geologic formation in Nunavut. It preserves enigmatic fossils dating back to the Middle to Late Tonian period, around 850 Ma - 760 Ma.[2]
Paleobiota
[edit]After Butterfield, 2005.[2]
Color key
| Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
Paleobiota | ||||
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Genus | Species | Notes | Images | |
Tappania |
| Acanthomorph acritarch. | ||
Cheilofilum |
| Enigmatic filamentous organism. | ||
Plicatosphaeridium |
| Enigmatic filamentous organism. | ||
Clavitrichoides |
| Enigmatic filamentous organism. | ||
Osculosphaera |
| Enigmatic filamentous organism. |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ van Acken, David; Thomson, Danielle; Rainbird, Robert H.; Creaser, Robert A. (October 2013). "Constraining the depositional history of the Neoproterozoic Shaler Supergroup, Amundsen Basin, NW Canada: Rhenium-osmium dating of black shales from the Wynniatt and Boot Inlet Formations". Precambrian Research. 236: 124–131. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2013.07.012.
- ^ a b Butterfield, Nicholas J. (June 2005). "Reconstructing a complex early Neoproterozoic eukaryote, Wynniatt Formation, arctic Canada". Lethaia. 38 (2): 155–169. doi:10.1080/00241160510013231.
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.