Also known as Reef 1504
Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (77.3° N, 86.8° W: paleocoordinates 9.4° S, 16.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Blue Fjord Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: G. P. Smith and C. W. Stearn. 1989. Coral/stromatoporoid reef complex, Lower Devonian, southwest Ellesmere Island, N.W.T. In H. H. J. Geldsetzer, N. P. James, and G. E. Tebbutt (eds.), Reefs, Canada and adjacent areas. Canadian Soc. Petrol. Geologists, Memoir 13:520-527 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45306: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 19.10.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Salairella prima Khromykh 1971 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Glyptostromoides simplex stromatoporoid sponge | |
Atopostroma tuntouense stromatoporoid sponge | |
Clathrodictyon ellesmerense stromatoporoid sponge | |
Gerronostroma cf. immemorata stromatoporoid sponge | |
Amphipora sp. Schulz 1883 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
Spongonaria parca horn coral
Spongonaria ogilviensis horn coral | |
Alveolites (Alveolitella) sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral | |
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Hormogoneae | |
Chlorophyceae | |