Uppermost Ordovician through Lower Silurian conodont biostratigraphy of the Cape Phillips Formation, Cornwallis Island, Canadian Arctic Islands

• Main Author: Jowett, David Martyn Stuart
• Other Authors: Barnes, Christopher R.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: biostratigraphy; conodont zones; Lower Silurian; Cape Phillips Formation; Canadian Arctic; Cornwallis Island; UVic Subject Index::Sciences and Engineering::Earth and Ocean Sciences::Paleontology; Arctic; Cape Phillips; Cornwallis; Greenland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2946

Lower Silurian conodont biostratigraphy is poorly known and not well correlated with the parallel graptolite biozonation. The Cape Phillips Formation contains a continuous record of sedimentation, and exceptionally well preserved faunas in the unstable shelf region of the Franklinian miogeoclinal su...