Cretaceous marine Teleostei from the basal Kanguk Formation, Banks Island, Northwest Territories

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Wilson, Mark V. H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1978
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Northwest Territories; Lac des Bois; Banks Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e78-187; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e78-187

A marine teleostean assemblage, from within 2 m of the base of the Upper Cretaceous Kanguk Formation on Banks Island, is dominated by scales of Osmeroides? transversus and Ichthyodectes ctenodon, as well as bones of a primitive teleost tentatively referred to the salmoniforms. The fish indicate a sh...