Macrofauna and biostratigraphy of the Rollrock Section, northern Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Islands – a comprehensive high latitude archive of the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition

• Published in: Cretaceous Research
• Main Authors: Schneider, S. (Simon), Kelly, S.R.A. (Simon R.A.), Mutterlose, J. (Jörg), Herrle, J.O. (Jens O.), Hülse, P. (Peter), Jolley, D.W. (David W.), Schroder-Adams, C. (Claudia), Lopez-Mir, B. (Berta)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Belemnites; Berriasian; Buchia; Craspeditinae; Dorsoplanitidae; Palaeoclimate; Tithonian; Valanginian; Arctic; Canada; Deer Bay; Ellesmere Island; Rugosa; sverdrup basin
• Online Access: https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/27360; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104508

The Rollrock Section in the Sverdrup Basin of Arctic Canada is one of the northernmost outcrops where the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition is accessible. The over 500 m thick sedimentary succession exposes the Oxfordian to Valanginian Ringnes and Deer Bay formations. Macrofauna from 15 discrete horizo...