Also known as Reef 114
Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (43.7° N, 60.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 13.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Artimon Member (Abenaki Formation), Valanginian (139.8 - 132.9 Ma)
• Perhaps ranging into Hauterivian, core 1 (3422.2-3429.3 m)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: L. Eliuk and R. Levesque. 1989. Earliest Cretaceous sponge reef mounds, Nova Scotia Shelf (Shell Demascotia). In H. H. J. Geldsetzer, N. P. James, and G. E. Tebbutt (eds.), Reefs, Canada and adjacent areas. Canadian Soc. Petrol. Geologists, Memoir 13:713-720 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45348: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 20.10.2004, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cyanophyceae | |
Cyanophyceae indet. Sachs 1874 | |
unclassified | |
Protozoa | |
Foraminifera | |
Nodosariata | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Rhodophyceae indet. Ruprecht 1851 | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Polychaeta | |
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Anthozoa | |
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Hydrozoa | |
Hydrozoa indet. Owen 1843 | |
? Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956 | |
Hexactinellida | |
Hexactinellida indet. Schmidt 1870 glass sponge | |
Demospongiae | |
? Chaetetopsis krimholzi demosponge | |
Eustrobilus sp. Schrammen 1910 demosponge | |
Shuqraiopsis abenakiensis demosponge | |
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Sestrostomella canadensis n. sp.
Sestrostomella canadensis n. sp. demosponge | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Sphaeractinia steinmanni stromatoporoid sponge
Ellipsactinia sp. stromatoporoid sponge | |
Disjectopora | |
Disjectopora sp. Waagen and Wentzel 1888 |