Norman Wells, Mackenzie River, lower Ramparts Formation: Givetian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Cystiphyllida
- Cystiphyllidae
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Lythophyllum sp.
(Wedekind 1925)
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Zonophyllum sp.
(Wedekind 1924)
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Kyphophyllidae
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Tabulophyllum sp.
Fenton and Fenton 1924
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Amplexidae
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Altaiophyllum sp.
Ivaniya 1955
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Disphyllidae
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Argutastrea arguta
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Argutastrea sp.
Crickmay 1960
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Ptenophyllidae
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Grypophyllum crickmayi
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Grypophyllum subtile
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Stringophyllidae
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Neospongophyllum sp.
Wedekind 1922
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Anthozoa
- Charactophyllidae
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Temnophyllum richardsoni
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Temnophyllum decaeni
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Chostophyllum goryanovi
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? Hunanophrentis sp.
Sun 1958
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Northwest Territories |
| Coordinates: | 65.3° North, 126.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.1° South, 36.2° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Middle Devonian |
| Stage: | Givetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 3 |
| Key time interval: | Givetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 387.70000 - 382.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Ramparts | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: lower formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: bedded, platformal unit, dominated by abundant branching tabulate corals and to a lesser degree branching and other stromatoporoids | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 84236 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-09-30 03:04:10 | Last modified: | 2008-09-30 06:04:10 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2010-01-08 10:39:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 28222. | R. A. McLean. 1997. Middle Devonian rugose coral faunas in northeastern British Columbia and District of Mackenzie, western Canada. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, Seccion Geologica 92:289-300 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |