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The first Tertiary (Paleocene) marine mollusks from the Eureka Sound Group, Ellesmere Island, Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Louie Marincovich Jr.  and
William J. Zinsmeister
Louie Marincovich Jr.
Affiliation:
Branch of Paleontology and Stratigraphy, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 94025
William J. Zinsmeister
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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Abstract

The gastropod Drepanochilus pervetus (Stanton) and the bivalve Cytrodaria rutupiensis (Morris) occur in the Mount Moore Formation at Strathcona Fiord, west-central Ellesmere Island, northern Canada. They are the first marine mollusks identified from the Eureka Sound Group of the Canadian arctic islands. These mollusks correlate with Paleocene faunas of the Cannonball Formation of North Dakota and South Dakota, the Prince Creek Formation of northern Alaska, the Barentsburg Formation of Svalbard, and the Thanet and Oldhaven Formations of southeastern England. These occurrences imply that the earliest Tertiary Arctic Ocean molluscan fauna was compositionally distinct from coeval faunas of the northern Atlantic Ocean.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 65 , Issue 2 , March 1991 , pp. 242 - 248
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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