Blue Fjord reef complex, Ellesmere Island (Devonian of Canada)

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

• Platform reef, 100 m high, 2 km wide, 10 km long

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
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Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida - Syringostromellidae
Salairella prima Khromykh 1971 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Glyptostromoides simplex stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Syringostromatidae
Atopostroma tuntouense stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon ellesmerense stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Gerronostromatidae
Gerronostroma cf. immemorata stromatoporoid sponge
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora sp. Schulz 1883 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Spongonaria sp. n. sp. Crickmay 1962 horn coral
sp. nov. 1
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites (Alveolitella) sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -