Also known as Reef 1384

Where: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (48.7° N, 58.9° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° S, 39.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Black Duck Member (Lourdes Limestone Formation), Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• Early Caradocian, coral biostrome in unit BD2, coral bioherms in unit BD3

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: N. P. James and R. J. Cuffey. 1989. Middle Ordovician coral reefs; western Newfoundland. In H. H. J. Geldsetzer, N. P. James, and G. E. Tebbutt (eds.), Reefs, Canada and adjacent areas. Canadian Soc. Petrol. Geologists, Memoir 13:192-195 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 45282: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 19.10.2004, edited by Uta Merkel

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