GSC Loc# C-74183 (Devonian of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (58.0° N, 112.7° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° S, 38.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Waterways Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• "lower upper Dev (above Slave Pt)"

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; argillaceous, calcareous limestone and lime mudstone

• "argillaceous micritic ls/calcareous mdst. fossils abraded. shallow, somewhat turbulent. calcareous algae in one sample"

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: W. I. Ausich, T. W. Kammer, and N. G. Lane. 1979. Fossil communities of the Borden (Mississippi) delta in Indiana and northern Kentucky. Journal of Paleontology 53:1182-1196 [G. Webster/G. Webster/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3432: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 31.01.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "A.W. Norris and T.T. Uyeno, 1981. Strat and Paleo of the lowermost Upper Dev Slave Point Fm. on Lake Claire and the Lower Upper Dev. Waterways Fm. on Birch River, NW Alberta. Geol. Surv. Can. Bull., 334, 53pp. "
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
circular echinoderm ossicle w/single axial channel
Strophomenata
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Devonoproductus cf. tertius
Devonoproductus cf. tertius
originally entered as "Devonoproductus cf. tertius"
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Eleutherokomma sp.
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
"Pseudatrypa sp." = Pseudoatrypa
"Pseudatrypa sp." = Pseudoatrypa Copper 1973
originally entered as "Pseudoatrypa sp."