Communities and paleoecology of Eifelian (mid-Devonian) brachiopods from the Bird Fiord Formation of Arctic Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Li, Rong-yu, Jones, Brian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2002
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Arctic; Ellesmere Island; Canada; Devon Island; Bathurst Island; Kent Island; Bird Fiord; Grinnell Peninsula; North Kent Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e02-051; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e02-051

The carbonate–siliciclastic strata in the Bird Fiord Formation of Arctic Canada contain a diverse brachiopod-dominated biota. A collection of 46 381 brachiopods from 126 sites at 35 localities on Ellesmere Island, North Kent Island, Grinnell Peninsula (Devon Island), and Bathurst Island includes 22...