Lac des Bois, a locality in the northern Western Interior Seaway (Canada) with Tethyan faunal connections during the Cenomanian/Turonian Thermal Maximum

• Published in: Cretaceous Research
• Main Authors: Cumbaa, S.L. (Stephen L.), Day, R. (Richard), Gingras, M. (Murray), Haggart, J.W. (James W.), Holmes, R.B. (Robert B.), Murray, A.M. (Alison M.), Schroder-Adams, C. (Claudia)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Acanthomorpha; Ammonites; Cenomanian–Turonian boundary; Inoceramidae; Northwest Territories; Arctic; Canada; Lac des Bois; Foraminifera*; sverdrup basin
• Online Access: https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/20430; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2018.07.012

Early Turonian fishes are known from only a few localities in the Northern Hemisphere, including three in the present-day European/Mediterranean region and three in northern Canada. One of the latter localities, Lac des Bois (66°52.087ʹ N), preserves a diverse marine fauna composed of trace fossils,...