Bryozoans from the Artinskian (Lower Permian) Great Bear Cape Formation, Ellesmere Island (Canadian Arctic)

Samples containing bryozoans collected during the 1898-1902 expedition of the ?Fram? to the Canadian arctic islands have been reinvestigated. A small amount of calcareous rock derived from the Artinskian Great Bear Cape Formation has yielded a very rich bryozoan fauna comprising 37 taxa (four of the Order Cystoporida, six of the Order Trepostomida, seven of the Order Rhabdomesonida, one of the Order Cryptostomida, one of the Order Phylloporinida and eighteen of the Order Fenestrida). The faunal composition when compared with contemporaneous units of adjacent Arctic areas shows most similarity to Spitsbergen and Timan-Pechora. The bryozoans support the ages previously known from conodont occurrences.