Port au Port Peninsula, bryozoan-microbial mounds (Carboniferous of Canada)

Also known as Reef 127

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (48.6° N, 58.8° W: paleocoordinates 12.5° S, 9.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Big Cove Formation (Codroy Group), Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basin reef; lithified limestone

• formed by chemosynthetic processes at low temperature marine vents at a water depth of 100 m or more
• bryozoan-microbial mounds with bryozoans, brachiopods and ? vestimentiferan tube worms

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. H. von Bitter, S. D. Scott, and P. E. Schenk. 1992. Chemosynthesis: An alternate hypothesis for Carboniferous biotas in bryozoan/microbial mounds, Newfoundland, Canada. Palaios 7:466-484 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76873: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.12.2007

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Spirorbidae indet.
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Beecheriidae
Beecheria sp.
Beecheria sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Stenoporellidae
? Stenoporella sp.
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet.
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Malacostraca
 Mysida -
Bellocaris newfoundlandensis