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CHAPTER III 
FOSSILS FROM BAFFIN ISLAND, COLLECTED 
BY J. DEWEY SOPER 
By Alice E. Wilson 
The fossils in the present collection were all picked up from “drift”. 
A few of them were obtained from Eskimo. It is probable that some of 
them were not far from their original position, as similar fossils were seen 
in the rocks underlying the water in Koukjuak river; others may have been 
carried farther. As will be seen from the following report, the result is a 
mingling of the fossils from different formations. The Utica (Collingwood) 
lot, however, appears to be an exception and was probably practically in 
place. 
Because of the “drift” source of the collection, with the above excep- 
tion the arrangement of species is biological, since the usual locality arrange- 
ment does not have any stratigraphic value. 
Incertae Sedis 
Receptaculites cf. occidentalis Salter 
Locality. Coral bay, Fossil island. 
Horizon. Ordovician, suggestive of the Black River. 
Receptaculites sp. A. 
This species is like R. occidentalis in having four canals, but more like 
R. oweni in size and rapid enlargement of the spicules. 
Locality. Snowgoose bay, Koukjuak, Fossil island, Anderson headland, 
Coral bay; “drift on summit of Pingualuik, southwest of lake Nettil- 
ling”. Collected by Eskimo from south beach of Amadjuak lake. 
Horizon. Ordovician, but with nothing to indicate the division. 
Stromatoporoidea 
Stromatocerium sp. 
Locality. Snowgoose bay. 
Horizon. Ordovician. 
A stromatoporoid fragment collected by Eskimo near Markham bay. 
Anthozoa (Corals) 
Zaphrentis n. sp. 
Locality. Anderson headland, Fossil island, Snowgoose bay, Koukjuak 
bay, one without locality number; on beach of south coast of Amad- 
juak lake. 
Horizon. Upper Ordovician (Richmond) or Silurian. 
